Shin Shalom
Shin Shalom ( Hebrew ש. שלום, born as Shalom Joseph Shapira in 1905 in Parczew , Austria-Hungary ; died 1990 in Israel ) was an Israeli writer.
Life
Shalom Shapira's family fled to Vienna at the beginning of the First World War. He wrote poems first in German and then in Hebrew. His family emigrated to Palestine in 1922 , where he attended a teachers' college in Jerusalem . From 1926 he lived as a teacher in the kibbutz Kfar Hassidim . In 1930/31 he was a student and teacher in Nuremberg for a year .
From 1939 Shalom lived as a freelance writer. He wrote poetry, prose and translated Shakespeare's sonnets into Hebrew , among other things . With Max Brod he wrote the libretto of the first Israeli opera Dan Ha-schomer [Dan, the Guardian], which was composed by Marc Lavry . Brod translated several of his poems into German. He was in correspondence with Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs .
Shalom received the Bialik Prize for the work Face to Face in 1941 , the Israel Prize in 1973 and a literary prize named after Saul Tschernichowski . Shalom was president of the Hebrew Writers' Union.
Works (selection)
- Galilean diary . Translation Anna Nussbaum. Heidelberg: Three Bridges, 1954
- Seals. Hebrew and German . Tel Aviv: Eked, 1986
- Poems . Ora Fried in Romanian. Tel Aviv: Eked, 1989
Web links
- Literature by and about Šālôm, Šîn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Shalom, Shin 1904-1990 in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Shin Shalom , at Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature (ITHL) (en)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shalom, Shin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shapira, Shalom Joseph (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parczew |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1990 |
| Place of death | Israel |