Yocheved Bat-Miriam (; ; pen name of Yocheved Zhlezniak) (5 March 1901 – 7 January 1980) was an Israeli poet. Bat-Miriam was born in Belorussia to a Hasidic family. She studied pedagogy in Kharkov and at the universities of Odessa and Moscow. During this period, she participated in the revolutionary literary activities of the “Hebrew Octoberists”, a Communist literary group, and one of her earliest poem-cycles, a paean to revolutionary Russia entitled Erez (Land) was published in the group's anthology in 1926. She is unusual among Hebrew poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine, later to be called Israel, in 1928.Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Yocheved Bat-Miriam – Curriculum Vitae Her first book of poetry, Merahok ("From a distance") was published in 1929. In 1948, her son Nahum (Zuzik) Hazaz from the writer Haim Hazaz died in the 1947–1949 Palestine war. Since then she never wrote a poem again.
Selected works 1929:Zierler 2004: 330 notes 1932 according to the yiddish translation (Merahok. Ben-Ari, R. Habimah. Tel Aviv 1932); cf. Gilboa 1982: 308. Merahok ("From a distance"). 1937: Erets Yisra'el ("The Land of Israel"). 1940:Zierler 2004: 330 notes 1949. Re'ayon ("Interview"). 1942: Demuyot meofek ("Images from the Horizon"). 1942: Mishirei Russyah ("Poems of Russia"). 1943: Shirim La-Ghetto ("Poems for the Ghetto"). 1963: Shirim ("Poems"). 1975: Beyn Chol Va-Shemesh ("Between Sand and Sun"). 2014: Machatzit Mul Machatzit : Kol Ha-Shirim ("Collected Poems").
Awards In 1963, Bat-Miriam was awarded the Brenner Prize for literature. Davar Newspaper, 17 December 1963 In 1964, Bat-Miriam was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature. In 1972, she was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature.
See also List of Bialik Prize recipients List of Israel Prize recipients
References
Further reading The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself, 2nd new edition, by Stanley Burnshaw, T. Carmi, Susan Glassman, Ariel Hirschfield and Ezra Spicehandler (editors), published 31 March 2002, . A Language Silenced : The Suppression of Hebrew Literature and Culture in the Soviet Union, by Jehoshua A. Gilboa. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, published 1982, / And Rachel Stole the Idols : The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing, by Wendy Zierler. Wayne State Univ. Press, published 2004, / .
External links Translation of a portion of Bat-Miriam's Cranes from the Threshold