Moshe Shamir

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Moshe Shamir ( Hebrew משה שמיר; * September 15, 1921 in Safed ; † August 20, 2004 in Rishon LeZion ) was an Israeli writer .

Life

Moshe Shamir became famous for his 1951 novel A King of Flesh and Blood , a historical novel about the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannäus . Shamir also wrote children's and youth books and plays. His play "He went in the fields" ( He went in the fields ) about the war of independence of the state of Israel premiered on May 31, 1948 in Tel Aviv - it was the first premiere of a play after the proclamation of the independence of the state. His piece “Der Erbe” about the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem was premiered in 2001 in a German translation by Matthias Morgenstern in the Stadttheater Heilbronn .

In his younger years he was politically more left-wing. He sympathized with the Mapam . After the Six Day War in 1967 he joined the movement for a Greater Israel , which wanted to annex the territories conquered in the war and which later became a faction of the Likud which was being founded. He was elected to the Knesset and rejected the peace treaty with Egypt . He then co-founded the far- right Techija party .

Translations

Judith among the lepers. From the Hebrew by Matthias Morgenstern in: Judaism in Context. A west-east anthology with translations from six languages. Professor Dr. Stefan Schreiner on his 60th birthday. Tübingen 2007, pp. 152-219.

literature

Matthias Morgenstern, drama as coping with history. Moshe Shamir's play "War of the Sons of Light" , in: Judaica. Contributions to Understanding Judaism, 3/2001, 91–111.

Matthias Morgenstern, theater and Zionist myth. A Study of Contemporary Hebrew Drama. Tübingen 2002, pp. 46-58 (on "He Went in the Fields") and pp. 204-225 (on "Judith among the Lepers").

Matthias Morgenstern, The Israeli Theater. Notes and Notes (Hebrew Literature in Dialog 1), Münster 2016, pp. 65–86.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in the Guardian
personal data
SURNAME Shamir, Moshe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES משה שמיר (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Safed
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 2004
Place of death Rishon LeZion