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Ep. 168: From "Anniversaries of War", by Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet who died in the year 2000 at the age of 76.
His lifetime showed him all sides of persecution and despair, war and violence.
Born in Germany in the 1920s, his Jewish family fled in the 1930s to Palestine and later Israel.
A teacher, he served in the Israeli forces in the Sinai War in 1956 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
With these experiences, and his own sensibilities, he turned his attention in his writing to war and to peace after war, trying to understand the world that could create the Holocaust and all the other endless hardships of the 20th century.
In 1994 he was invited by the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to read some poems at the ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
This is an extract from a much longer poem, titled Anniversaries of War, which was set to music by the composter Elizabeth Alexander.
In its few short lines it paints a picture of the beauty of the world amidst all its battles.
Excerpt from Anniversaries of War, by Yehuda Amichai:
Remember: even the departure to terrible battles
passes by gardens and windows
and children playing, a dog barking.
Remind the fallen fruit
of its leaves and branches,
remind the sharp thorns
how soft and green they were in springtime,
and do not forget,
even a fist
was once an open palm and fingers.
English translation by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav
You can read the poem here
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Once Upon a Time by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/ | Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
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Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet who died in the year 2000 at the age of 76.
His lifetime showed him all sides of persecution and despair, war and violence.
Born in Germany in the 1920s, his Jewish family fled in the 1930s to Palestine and later Israel.
A teacher, he served in the Israeli forces in the Sinai War in 1956 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
With these experiences, and his own sensibilities, he turned his attention in his writing to war and to peace after war, trying to understand the world that could create the Holocaust and all the other endless hardships of the 20th century.
In 1994 he was invited by the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to read some poems at the ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
This is an extract from a much longer poem, titled Anniversaries of War, which was set to music by the composter Elizabeth Alexander.
In its few short lines it paints a picture of the beauty of the world amidst all its battles.
Excerpt from Anniversaries of War, by Yehuda Amichai:
Remember: even the departure to terrible battles
passes by gardens and windows
and children playing, a dog barking.
Remind the fallen fruit
of its leaves and branches,
remind the sharp thorns
how soft and green they were in springtime,
and do not forget,
even a fist
was once an open palm and fingers.
English translation by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav
You can read the poem here
***
For a detailed outline of the mission and purpose behind this podcast, please check out Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", in your podcast player or click here to listen on Spotify.
If you’re on social media, you can follow on Twitter here, Instagram here and Facebook here.
Subscribe to or follow the show for free wherever you listen to podcasts.
To leave the show a review:
On Spotify. Open the Spotify app (iOS or Android), find the show and tap to rate five-stars. (Details here)On Apple. Open your Apple Podcasts app, find the show and tap to rate five-stars. (Details here)On Podchaser. Open the Podchaser website, find the show and tap to rate five-stars. (Details here)
Music Credit:
Once Upon a Time by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/ | Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
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