Haim Gouri

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Haim Gouri (2005)

Haim Gouri ( Hebrew חיים גורי; originally Haim Gorfinkel ; born October 9, 1923 in Tel Aviv , League of Nations mandate for Palestine ; died January 31, 2018 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist and documentary filmmaker.

life and work

Haim Gouri and his wife Aliza (around 2003)

Haim Gorfinkel, later Gouri, was born in Tel Aviv in 1923. In 1941 he joined the paramilitary Palmach and was one of the first to complete an officer course there. In 1947 he was sent to Hungary to help Holocaust survivors get to Palestine. In 1948 he fought in the Israeli War of Independence , his experiences cover a number of his poems. He studied literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. For many years he worked as a journalist. As a trial reporter, he followed the entire Eichmann trial . His notes on the trial were published in 1962 as a book under the title mul ta 'hasechuchit (English translation: Facing the Glass Booth: Reporting the Eichmann Trial ). As a filmmaker, Gouri has worked on documentaries that dealt with the Holocaust .

Gouri wrote poems, novels and essays. Poems by him have appeared in 25 languages. Some of Gouri's novels contain allusions that were understood only by his generation; According to Gershon Shaked, these works were strange and incomprehensible to Jews from another continent and even to somewhat younger or older contemporaries.

Haim Gouri was married and had three daughters.

Awards (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Haim Gouri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Israelnetz.de of January 31, 2018: The Poetic Memory of Israel
  2. Sabine Brandes: Part of the Israeli ethos. In: Jüdische Allgemeine . January 31, 2018, accessed February 1, 2018 .
  3. a b Haim Gouri at ITHL
  4. ^ Gershon Shaked: History of Modern Hebrew Literature, p. 307
  5. ^ Gershon Shaked: History of Modern Hebrew Literature, p. 228
  6. Israelnetz.de of January 31, 2018: The Poetic Memory of Israel