Yeshurun Keshet

Yeshurun Keshet (Hebrew: ישֻרוּן קֶשֶת‎; 29 November 1893 – 22 February 1977), born Ya'akov Yehoshua Koplewitz, was an Israeli poet, essayist, translator and literary critic.

Yeshurun Keshet
BornYa'akov Yehoshua Koplewitz
(1893-11-29)November 29, 1893
Mińsk Mazowiecki, Congress Poland
DiedFebruary 22, 1977(1977-02-22) (aged 83)
Jerusalem, Israel
Resting placeMount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
LanguageHebrew
Notable awardsTchernichovsky Prize (1948)
Bialik Prize (1976)
SpouseClara Hollander

Biography

Keshet was born in Mińsk Mazowiecki, Congress Poland, and sent by his parents to Tel Aviv in 1911 to attend the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium. Between 1920 and 1926 he studied at universities in Rome and Berlin, and also taught in Marijampole, Lithuania.[1] He Hebraized his surname following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

Work

Keshet's volumes of poetry include Ha-Helekh ba-Aretz (1932), Elegyot (1944), and Ha-Ḥayyim ha-Genuzim (1959). Notable among his works of literary criticism is his monograph on Micha Josef Berdyczewski (1958).[2]

Keshet translated into Hebrew numerous classics of philosophy and literature, among them works by Winston Churchill, Moses Hess, William James, Franz Kafka, Jack London, Thomas Mann, and Romain Rolland.[3] He received the 1948 Tchernichovsky Prize for his translation of the essays of Michel de Montaigne, and was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1976.

References
  1. Tidhar, David (1947). "Yeshurun Keshet" ישורון קשת (יעקב קופלביץ). Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel (in Hebrew). 10. Estate of David Tidhar and Touro College Libraries. p. 3490.
  2. "Yeshurun Keshet". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  3. "Yeshurun Keshet Dead at 84". JTA Daily News Bulletin. 44 (38). Tel Aviv: Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 24 February 1955. p. 4.
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