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A Biography of Leah Goldberg

Leah Goldberg is one of the most important Israeli creators
(artists) of the 20th century. Her poems and stories are a
foundation stone in Israeli culture. Leah, like many creators of
her time, wrote, spoke and taught only in Hebrew. Her Hebrew
was beautiful and rich.
Leah Goldberg was born in 1911 in Königsberg, Germany.
During World War I, her family escaped to Russia. After the
war, Leah studied philosophy and Semitic languages at the
universities in Kovna, Berlin and Bonn. When she finished (her)
studies, she returned to Lithuania, and there she taught literature
in the Hebrew Gymnasium. She moved to Israel on her own in
1935. At the age of 24 she already has a Ph.D. and she entered
the “Yachdav” circle of writers, of which Natan Alterman and
Avraham Shlonsky were also members. In 1950, Leah began
working at the Hebrew University, received the title ‘professor’,
and opened up the department of comparative literature.
Aside from her books for children and of poems, Leah wrote for
many newspapers, edited children’s books, children’s
newspapers and more. She won many awards, among them the
Israel Prize for Literature.
Leah passed away in 1970 from lung cancer, and was buried in
the plot (reserved) for professors. Her mother passed away
thirteen years after her, and requested that they write just four
words on her grave: The mother of Leah Goldberg.

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