Ravikovitch

Goldberg enriched Hebrew poetry with the sonnet and terzina forms, while Ravikovitch, in Ahavat Tapuah ha-Zahav (The love of an orange, 1961), composed poems whose enchanting quality is based on biblical language, classical forms and intense yet sophisticated emotional power.

Israeli Women's Writing in Hebrew: 1948-2004. 2009

Window: New and Selected Poems/Dahlia Ravikovitch (1982).

Judaic Studies in the United States. 2009

Though her crisp lyricism remained essentially unchanged and could sometimes evoke the sense of emotional turmoil displayed in her earlier poetry, in the course of four decades Ravikovitch developed into a versatile writer who engaged in a wide range of issues: personal and general, local and international.

Dalia Ravikovitch. 2009

Morpurgo to contemporary writers and includes studies of the characteristics of the works of Morpurgo, Raab, Bat-Miriam, Goldberg and Ravikovitch.

Israeli Women's Writing in Hebrew: 1948-2004. 2009

Ravikovitch was born on November 18, 1936 in Ramat Gan, a Tel Aviv suburb.

Dalia Ravikovitch. 2009

And yet, in her later works Ravikovitch mostly traveled through real and imaginary worlds exploring the pain and suffering of men and women throughout the universe.

Dalia Ravikovitch. 2009

Always given to bouts of depression, Ravikovitch died on August 21, 2005, at her Tel Aviv home, where her son found her lifeless body.

Dalia Ravikovitch. 2009

Ravikovitch published some twenty volumes of works, including two poetry books for children and three collections of short stories.

Dalia Ravikovitch. 2009

In that year, when Ravikovitch was six years old, her father was run over and killed by a drunken driver, leaving his daughter with a permanent sense of loss and orphanhood.

Dalia Ravikovitch. 2009

But in her subversive linkages to traditionally male Jewish texts, such as the Mishnah and the Midrash, and to universal myths, legends and fairy tales, Ravikovitch was the first woman poet in Hebrew to confront a world dominated by ancient texts and by the power of their words.

Dalia Ravikovitch. 2009