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The Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela
Category: Religion & Spirituality
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Publish Date: 2016-03-28 05:07:09
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Yehuda Amichai is probably the best known Israeli poet in the world. Today, host Marcela Sulak celebrates the recent publication of Robert Alter’s The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai - the largest collection of Amichai’s poetry published in a single volume to date. Alter claims that a complete edition of Amichai’s poetry would be three times larger.

Marcela reads from the end of an epic, autobiographical poem “The Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela”:

"The players sat inside, the talkers on the verandah:half my love, my left hand, a quarter of a friend,a man half dead. The sound of the killed piecestossed into the wooden box is like distant thunder, heralding evil."

Text:The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Edited by Robert Alter. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

Music:Shimon Bar - Masa'ot Binyamin MiTudelaAlbioni - Adagio in G Minor

 
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