 | The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai Subjects: Amichai Yehuda -- Criticism and interpretation; Israeli poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Jewish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; No detailed description available for "The Full Severity of Compassion". Chana Kronfeld is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics (winner of the MLA Scaglione Prize for Best Book in Comparative Literary Studies) and the co-translator (with Chana Bloch) of Yehuda Amichai's Open Closed Open: Poems (winner of the PEN Translation Prize). Kronfeld is the recipient of the Akavyahu Lifetime Achievement Award for her studies of Hebrew and Yiddish poetry. |
