David Shimoni

David Shimoni (originally ski Monowitz; born August 25, 1891 in Bobruisk, † December 10, 1956 in Tel Aviv) was a Hebrew poet.

Life and work

He was born in a shtetl near Minsk and was the son of Nissan ski Monowitz, a learned followers of the Haskalah. His first literary impressions he received in the library of the father of his childhood friend Berl Katznelson. Initially he translated poems from Russian, his poem Ben ha - Schemaschot appeared in 1902 ( "Between the Sun ") with a an encouraging indication of Bialik. His lyrical early work appeared in the prestigious Hebrew literary magazines. Because of government restrictions on admission of Jews to universities, he moved to Eretz Israel in 1909, where he stayed about a year and became friends especially with Aharon David Gordon and Joseph Chaim Brenner. The two months he spent on a trip across the country and orange groves as well as guards while working in Rehovot and Petah Tikva, served him for the rest of his life as poetic inspiration. From 1911 to 1914 he studied oriental philology and philosophy at universities in Berlin, Heidelberg and Würzburg. Collections of his poems appeared in 1911 and 1912 in Warsaw. When World War II broke out, he returned to Russia and spent the war in his native city and in St. Petersburg. At the outbreak of the February Revolution he moved to Moscow, where he became editorial secretary of the newspaper Ha -Am ( "People "). At this time his cycles of poems and his translations of Tolstoy, Lermontov, Pushkin and Heine were published.

After several attempts, he left Russia and came back in 1921 to Palestine, where he authored more poems and idylls. In 1925 he settled in Tel Aviv and taught until the end of his life, Bible and Hebrew literature at the middle school in Herzliya. In addition to his literary activities, he became a member and eventually chairman of the Academy of the Hebrew language and belonged to the Israel Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His seals reflect the ideals of the Second Aliya and describe the life of Chalutzim ( "pioneers" ) in the nascent Jewish state. He belonged to a circle of Hebrew writers, all of whom were under the influence of Bialik and a generation of the most important representatives of the Israeli literature were long. During his lifetime, obtained especially his idylls awareness; the rest of his work is characterized by the emergence of the lyric I, as well as a didactic style to the spread of ideas, in which the means of satire is used. In his later works, in addition Shimoni deals with contemporary issues and the needs of the people.

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