A GLIMPSE INTO CONTEMPORARY HEBREW POETRY

Description

Melton & More

Location

ONLINE

Date & Time

Wednesdays, 12:00-1:30pm (EST) July 6, 13, 20, 27; Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24

"O, my Kinneret,
Were you there or

did I only dream?"

- Rachel the Poetess

Course Description :

** This course, taught in Hebrew, is designed for Intermediate and Advanced Hebrew learners. 

For hundreds of years the Hebrew language was considered “lashon kodesh”, a holy language only to be used for the purposes of prayer, and not for conversational or literary purposes. Around the end of the 18th century, there was an almost miraculous comeback and the “Sleeping Beauty” woke up again. Thousands of new books are published yearly in Israel and poetry is a significant part of them. In this course, we will read and analyze a selection of poems written by some of the most renowned authors (Bialik, Rachel, Amichai, Leah Goldberg and others). Lyrical poetry expresses, in general, intimate feelings, however, in Hebrew poetry, personal emotions are frequently intertwined with contemporary or historical Jewish themes. Together we will discover through the modern revived language, the echoes of our most important traditional texts.

WEDNESDAYS, 12:00-1:30pm (EST)

Dates: July 6, 13, 20, 27; Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24

 
About the Instructor:
 

Mrs. Henie Hajdenberg, is currently a lecturer of Hebrew Language at the University of Miami and the former Dean of Mijlelet Shazar, the Hebrew Teachers College in Buenos Aires. She studied in Buenos Aires and at the Tel Aviv University, where she specialized in Hebrew Language and Literature. She has authored numerous publications  including Sifrut Yafah - Hebrew Literature for Middle and High School,  Keneged Kulam: Pedagogies of the Talmud, The  Mystical World of Rabbi Nachmann of Braslav and Lengua de Tierra (an anthology of Israeli contemporary stories).
 
 
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