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Shahar Brahm

April 8, 2015 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Shahar Bram on Tuvia Ruebner Shahar Bram will present Tuvia Ruebner--one of Israel's most accomplished poets, and recipient of the Israel Prize. Bram will present Ruebner's elegies of loss, beauty, landscape, and home, including some of Bram's translations from a bilingual edition soon to be released. Shahar Bram is a poet, translator and a scholar who writes both English and Hebrew. His English publications include The Ambassadors of Death; Charles Olson, Alfred North Whitehead and the Long Poem: An Essay on Poetry. Among his Hebrew publications are books of poetry, scholarly works and translation of American poetry. Tuvia Ruebner was born Kurt Rübner in 1924 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia to a German-speaking Jewish family. In 1941, he emigrated to Mandate Palestine without his family, and joined a kibbutz. His parents, sisters and grandparents were sent to Poland and were murdered in the Holocaust. For many years he was a schoolteacher and later lectured on literature at Haifa University.

 

Shahar Bram will present Tuvia Ruebner–one of Israel’s most accomplished poets, and recipient of the Israel Prize. Bram will present Ruebner’s elegies of loss, beauty, landscape, and home, including some of Bram’s translations from a bilingual edition soon to be released.

 

 

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Date:
April 8, 2015
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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GWC
126 East Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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