Dalia Rabikovich

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Dahlia Ravikovitch, 1997
Dalia Ravikovitch around 1956

Dalia Ravikovitch (born November 17, 1936 in Ramat Gan , † August 21, 2005 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli poet , translator and peace activist .

Life

She studied at Kibbutz Geva and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and published her first Hebrew poems in the poetry magazine Orlogin (Hourglass), edited by Avraham Shlonsky , who also encouraged her to pursue a career as a writer. In the 1960s, she was married to Yitzhak Livni .

Aside from poetry, she also wrote prose , children's literature, and translated poems and novels by Edgar Allan Poe , TS Eliot, and William Butler Yeats into Hebrew. Some of her poems served as the basis for song lyrics. From the 1982 Lebanon War onwards she participated in the Israeli peace movement and was committed to social justice in Israeli society. In 1998 she was awarded the Israel Prize .

Dalia Ravikovitch died on August 21, 2005 in her apartment. Due to the fact that she had suffered from depression for a long time , a suicide was initially assumed, but this was not confirmed after an autopsy . Heart failure was found to be the cause of death.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Rebecca Benhamou: Dictionnaire insolite de Tel Aviv . Ed .: Patrick Arfi, Vanessa Pignarre. Cosmopole, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-84630-093-3 , pp. 122 f .
  2. ↑ poet Dalia Rabikovitch's death not a suicide , Jerusalem Post, 16 October 2005
  3. ↑ Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi: The music of her soul , Haaretz, April 12, 2009

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SURNAME Rabikovich, Dalia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raviḳovits, Daliyah; Ravikovitch, Dalia; Ravikovitch, Dahlia; Ravikovitch, Dalia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli poet and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramat Gan
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2005
Place of death Tel Aviv