Pinchas Sadeh

Memorial plaque for Pinchas Sadeh in Tel Aviv

Pinchas Sadeh , also Pinchas Sade ( Hebrew פנחס שדה, born June 17, 1929 in Lemberg ; died January 29, 1994 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli writer and poet .

life and work

He was born as Pinchas Feldman in Lemberg, Poland, at the time , and at the age of five immigrated with his parents to Palestine , where he attended schools in Tel Aviv and was temporarily shepherd in Kibbutz Sarid on the Jezreel plain . During the War of Independence , he took part in a number of operations, including the Battle of Jerusalem and the Defense of Mishmar HaEmek , which resulted in a disorderly withdrawal of the Arab Liberation Army .

After the war, he moved to London for a while , where he began studying art. After his return he settled in Ramat Gan , where he devoted himself to writing. He first wrote children's books and poems. His first collection of poems under the title Massa Dumah ("Vision of Dumah") appeared in 1946 and made him appear as a representative of Hebrew Expressionism . His autobiographical story Ha-Chajjim ke-Maschal ("Life as a Parable", 1958) caused a sensation in the Israeli literary landscape. In the young state of Israel in the 1950s, when the norms of Zionism with an emphasis on the collective prevailed, the book shocked with detailed descriptions of the narrator's personal experiences , including his sexual life. In addition, mystical religious experiences based on Christianity, Sabbatianism and Frankism were expressed. From then until his death, Sadeh was the trigger and the subject of disputes. In 1967 his novel Al matzawo schel ha-adam ("About the human condition ") was published, which describes seven days in the life of young people. 1969 followed the novella Mot Avimelech ("The Death of Avimelech"). In his poetry collections, including Sefer ha-schirim ("Book of Poems"), El schte ne'arot nichbadot ("To two adored young women", 1977) and Sefer ha-agasim ha-zehubim ("Book of yellow pears", 1985) he combines praise for female beauty and the self-sacrifice of women with reflections on nature, transience and mortality. He also wrote essays on Bialik and wrote an anthology of Hasidic legends. His collected poems were published in 2005.

In 1990 Pinchas Sadeh was awarded the Bialik Prize . Sadeh Friedrich describes Nietzsche , Jesus , Heine , Goethe and Hölderlin as formative influences for his worldview .

Sadeh, who was a heavy smoker, died of lung cancer in 1994 . He is buried in the Giv'at Sha'ul cemetery in Jerusalem.

literature

• Encyclopedia Judaica , Second Edition, Volume 17, pp. 655-656.

Web links

• Literature by and about Pinchas Sadeh in the catalog of the German National Library
• Pinchas Sadeh in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Life as a Parable