Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz
Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz ( Hebrew ימימה אבידר-טשרנוביץ; October 8, 1909 in Vilnius , Russian Empire - March 20, 1998 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli children's author .
Life
Her parents were Bella Tchernovitz (née Feldman, 1882-1928) and Samuel Tchernovitz (1879-1929). Her father was the editor of the Ha-Zefirah , Ha-Am and Olam Katan newspapers and also wrote for other Hebrew and Yiddish newspapers. Her older brother was the diplomat Jacob Tsur (née Tchernovitz, 1906–1990). Hebrew was spoken at home and Jewish culture was very important. She attended the kindergarten of the Hovevei Sefat Ever organization in Moscow , which promoted the preservation and use of the Hebrew language. At the age of 12 she arrived in Palestine in 1921 after stops in Kiev and Warsaw , first attended school in Moschawa Bet Gan and then in Jerusalem. Her first work was published at the age of 14, a short story in the New York children's newspaper Eden . In 1925 the family moved to Tel Aviv .
In 1931 and 1932 she studied pedagogy with Charlotte Bieler, Alfred Adler and Anna Freud in Berlin and Vienna. In Vienna she met her husband Yosef Rochel (1906-1995), who changed his surname in 1948 to Avidar. After returning to Tel Aviv, she worked as an educator and director of a kindergarten until 1945. While working as a kindergarten teacher, she wrote her first children's books. In 1953 she moved with her family to Jerusalem, where she died in 1998.
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Avidar-Tchernovitz's works are considered classics of children's literature in Israel. She was one of the first to deal with the life of children in Israel in children's books, and the depiction of realistic figures in simple relationships is characteristic of her oeuvre , for example in Shemonah be-ikvot Ehad (1945), which is considered her best-known book . Her works have been adapted for theater, television and cinema and translated into several languages. She herself translated works of children's literature into Hebrew. In 1985, the Institute for Children's Literature at Beit Berl University was named after her as Merkaz Yemima .
Awards
- Aaron Ze'ev Prize for Children's Literature 1983
- Israel Prize 1984
- Yakir Yerushalayim (Honorary Citizen of the City of Jerusalem) 1992
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on March 21, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Yemima Tchernovitz-Avidar. 1909-1998. In: Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved March 21, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Avidar-Tchernovitz, Yemima |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | ימימה אבידר-טשרנוביץ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli children's author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilnius |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1998 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |