Pinchas Sadeh
BornPinchas Feldman
1929
Lemberg, Poland
Died29 January 1994
(64 years old)
Jerusalem, Israel
OccupationNovelist and poet
NationalityIsraeli
Notable awards

Pinchas Sadeh, also Pinhas Sadeh, (Hebrew: פנחס שדה, born in Lemberg, Poland 1929; died 29 January 1994 in Jerusalem, Israel) was a Polish-born Israeli novelist and poet.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Pinhas Feldman (later Sadeh) was born in Galicia (then part of Poland).[1] His family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, settling in Tel Aviv.[1] He lived and studied in Kibbutz Sarid. Later, he studied in England.[5] Sadeh worked as a shepherd at Kvutzat Kinneret. There he met Yael Sacks, whom he married in 1956 but the union lasted only three months. In 1962–1969, he was married to Yehudit.[6] He began publishing his work in 1945.[7]

Sadeh died in Jerusalem at the age of 64.[1][8]

Literary career

Sadeh's literary output consisted of six collections of verse, two novels, a novella, four books of essays, a children's book and a collection of Hassidic folktales. Sadeh's work addressed elementary existential issues. He spoke of his writing as "theological" and a "moral act."[9] His first poem translated into English, "Proverbs of the Virgins," appeared in Commentary magazine in August 1950.[10] His collections of poetry included Burden of Dumah.[1] His novels included One Man's Condition and Death of Avimelech.[1] He also wrote an autobiographical account of his early life (up to age 27), Life as a Parable. Life as a Parable became his most celebrated work. According to one literary critic, it "expressed a 'yearning for religiosity' in a country that sanctified secularism."[7]

Sade also wrote comic books, which he signed with a pseudonym.[11] He was the author of most of the comics published in Haaretz Shelanu, a children's magazine, using the name "Yariv Amazya." Many of his comics were science-fiction based.[12]

Awards and recognition

Memorial plaque for Pinchas Sadeh

Sadeh won the 1990 Bialik Prize for Literature, jointly with T. Carmi and Natan Yonatan.[13] He was a 1973 recipient of the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Pinchas Sadeh; Novelist, 64". The New York Times. January 30, 1994. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  2. ↑ Jeff Green (March 5, 1993). "Reading From Right To Left". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  3. ↑ Rochelle Furstenberg (March 26, 1992). "His Father's Son". The Jerusalem Report. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  4. ↑ Literary review. 1982. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  5. ↑ Hebrew book review. Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature. 1965. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  6. ↑ The life and loves of writer Pinhas Sadeh
  7. 1 2 The life and loves of Writer Pinhas Sadeh
  8. ↑ "Israeli poet, novelist dies". Times Daily. January 30, 1994. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  9. ↑ Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature: Pinchas Sade
  10. ↑ Out of Israel: The Odyssey of Pinhas Sadeh
  11. ↑ Moori, Uri Moori, Jerusalem Post
  12. ↑ Hebrew Comics: A History
  13. ↑ Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum (2007). Encyclopaedia Judaica: Ra-Sam. Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN 9780028659282. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
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