For I Will Still Believe in Humanity: Faces in Tchernichovsky’s Poetry
Date:
Sunday (in 53 days)
October 18 at 9:00 in the morning – October 22 at 12:00 noon
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A series exploring the poetry of Shaul Tchernichovsky, both as one of the pillars of modern Hebrew poetry and as a rebellious and revolutionary poet. The sessions will be based on readings of selected poems from different periods of his work. The series will be led by Professor Avner Holtzman.
Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875–1943), second only to Bialik among the founding fathers of Hebrew poetry during the Revival period, emerges in retrospect also as a rebellious poet—consistent, and at times radical in his rebellion, within that same poetry. The series will present these two intertwined aspects: Tchernichovsky’s status as one of the pillars of modern Hebrew poetry, and, at the same time, his role as a radical representative of its revolutionary spirit and a foreign element within it. The series will be based on readings of selected poems illustrating the various shades and aspects of Tchernichovsky’s poetry throughout its periods, from the passionate and optimistic “I Believe,” written at the age of 19, to “I—Have Nothing of My Own,” a clear-eyed reckoning on the threshold of old age.
Avner Holtzman is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature at Tel Aviv University. He chairs the Humanities Division of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and is a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
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