Dahlia ravikovitch bio
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Dahlia Ravikovitch: 'The Greatest Hebrew Woman Poet of All Time'?
Ravikovitch has been called such things as “the central pillar of Hebrew lyric poetry,” and many, her translators say, consider her “the greatest Hebrew woman poet of all time.” Besides such plaudits, her work has been credited as having powerful influence beyond poetry, “launching Israeli feminism even before it became an explicit focus of social and cultural debate.”
A leading voice of the “statehood generation” of Israeli poets, Ravikovitch seems to straddle all of that nation’s history, and, unlike her peers, has a foot firmly planted in its current struggles. From the early 1980s on, she wrote many poems protesting Israeli military actions and “campaigned for Palestinian rights, and against messianic settler nationalists.” Yet she went her own way in many respects, criticizing what she regarded as the "culture of nothingness" of fellow Israeli secularists. Indeed, her verse can be passionately spiritual, especially when it gathers up the music of the Biblical texts that were native to her. For example, here are the concluding lines of “Delight,” an early sonnet, in which her lyrical Hebrew can almost be heard through the translated English:
And indeed it came to pass on Sabbath day
And tree boug
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Dahlia Ravikovitch
Israeli poet, translator and peace activist
Dahlia Ravikovitch (Hebrew: דליה רביקוביץ'; November 17, 1936 – August 21, 2005) was an Israeli poet, translator and recipient of the Israel Prize for Poetry in 1998.[1]
Biography
[edit]Ravikovitch was born in Ramat Gan on November 17, 1936. She learned to read and write at the age of three. Her father, Levi, was a Jewish engineer originally from Russia who arrived in Mandatory Palestine from China. Her mother, Michal, was a teacher who came from a religious household. When Dahlia was six, her father was run over and killed by a drunken driver. She moved to Kibbutz Geva with her mother but did not fit into the collectivist mentality and at 13 moved to a foster home in Haifa, the first of several foster homes.[2] It was in those formative years in Haifa that she wrote her very first poem, "Painting", which contrasted the blue of the seaside landscape to the yellow and grey of her inner world.[3]
Ravikovitch married at 18, but divorced after 3 months. Her subsequent marriages also ended in divorce. She has one son, Ido Kalir.[4] After completing her service in the Israel Defense Forces, she studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She worked as a journalist and
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Dahlia Ravikovitch 1997 photograph (1936-2005)
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