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Karen Alkalay-Gut

Jun 5, 2020, 1:17 PM

Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch: Why I had to write Bible poems from women’s point of view

Women's gallery in a detail from the 1878 painting, 'Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur,' by Maurycy Gottlieb. (Wikipedia)

My mother blessed me to be like the biblical matriarchs, but they weren't great role models, so I needed to understand them before I could learn from them

Aug 28, 2018, 4:32 PM

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The blank spot where my poem once hung in Yad Vashem

I wrote about seeing my grandmother in a photo through the eyes of a German WWI soldier -- some visitors saw it as a mirror

About Me

Karen Alkalay-Gut has retired as professor of English poetry at Tel Aviv University and presently chairs the Israel Association of Writers in English. Alkalay-Gut has published well over thirty books of poetry and biography in English, as well as Hebrew, Italian and Spanish translations. Recent books include “A Word in Edgewise,” which can be obtained through the publisher at simpleconundrums@gmail.com or on Amazon; The dual language, “Surviving Her Story, Holocaust poems/Survivre à son histoire: Poèmes d Holocauste,” (Éditions de Corlevour, 2020) translated into French by Sabine Huynh (available as of June 30); “Yerusha” (“Inheritance”), which was written in Yiddish and Hebrew (Leyvik, 2018) and will be appearing with English translation late in 2020.