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v ** •uhlihwht *<*%d by smwMhoNi FOR TNC ADVANCEMENT Of HCBR£W CULTVK _1 1. 1 l 1 JL ■■ . 1 1 ‘ i i »= m 4 * \ 1 , 1 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Honors YEHUDA AMICHAI Hebrew poetry wai honored by the Library of Congress, when one of Israel’s outstanding poets, Yehuda Amichai, was recently invited to give a reading from Us works. Following this presentation, ! Mr. Amicbai was the guest of honor at i a.Tea tendered by Mrs. Nixon upon this ettraonlinaiy occasion. Alter his appearance in Washington, Mr. Amichai went on a coast-to-coast tour to offer recitals of his poetry at America's leading universities. The cli max of that tour, sponsored by the Jew ish Agency’s Department of Education and Culture, came at the University of California in Berkeley, where, in spite of the student strike, an audience of many . hundreds thronged fo hear him. Amichai, born in Wurzburg, Germany in 1924, lives in Jerusalem ever since his family settled there in 1936. His poems use rhythms and idiom* of daily speech and are steeped in biblical associations and post-biblical liturgy. In addition to five books of poetry, Amichai’s creativity encompasses a bode of stories, a novel, and three radio plays. JERUSALEM On a rooftop of the Old City there is washing on a line in the day’s last light: A white sheet of my enemy a towel of my enemy to wipe sweat from his forehead. In the sky of die Old City there is a kite. Bat I cannot see the boy holding it sit the line's end because of the high waU. We have many flags flying, so have they, to make us believe that they were happy, to make them believe we were. Tmnskied by lUcmm. Sum By YEHUDA AMICHAI *t* ]Viqg i -twig'ngfc* '**fc ,lnlK The “Old Guard” is Going ... ' . i In a tragic succession, fsrael and the Jewish worid have lost, in the past few months, five of the great men of Modern Hebrew Literature. YEHUDA BURLA 1886 — 1969 Novelist of Sefardl and Oriental Jewish Literature LEA GOLDBERG 1911—1970 Poet, Critic, Playwright 8. Y. AGNON 1888 — 1970 Hebrew literature’s first Nobel prize winner NATHAN ALTERMAN 1910 — 1970 Poet and Translator ot Shakespearean Plays AVIGDOR HAMEIRI 1890 — 1970 Poet, Critic, Novelist, Translator Their memory lives on in the splendor oI their work. f n >2 '2 ') 'Jn HEBREW HOBBYISTS ULPAN IN COUNTERPOINT... The Oxford Ulpan IN JERUSALEM for extensive speedup courses in English labiK TTianpiK n»ba 3 hb ron'TKOtnS’wn HATS erro tmmmrrormm ENGLISH m itm 25128 to ,10 *m iron on own* (from an ad in HAARETZ) NEW EXPRESSIONS njiu/7 tin TARIFF rnujn nbrb e-e ,onn nitre 1r nn’nun nn’en ' n-naota o»jini *a b» a*l*ai mr» ,mxln nx»x anpa bson 1b es*ie .ftarji aia ne ratois 1 ntaipyg GOODWILL T~B5E) || TVJia IMPORTER yin nIxiKn mmo xj;pa man ,bo; byen b») *13? nbnn p ran jku’ oen «ab aw ,*j* XVI bpfem Jttt? - xn littra nbro .(mr, rm sM vr* R»? **3?t m “** "W* ww 1 *»»* I* vrt w* rte Jmta en jreyw TCP? Cecille J. A Liman 3 ACROSS 1. prayers S. (they) engraved 9. and wind 10. apple 12. (he) pushed 14. page ; 16. children 19. who 21.' only 23. pirates 26. d©H 28. sons 29. the nights 30. garden 31. hook 32. the dew 34. the hope 37. bad (raasc. sing.) 38. orange 41. warm (masc. sing.) 42. doors 43. pure (masc. ting.) DOWN 1. thank you vary much (two worda) 2. flower 3. beauty 4. damp (masc. sing.) 8. tub 6. brown 7. take (plural) 8. hook 11. bell 13. echo 1$. coat of 17. to lead 1 18. you set (plural) 20. right 22. voices 24. apartment 25. blood 27. expensive 30. wave 83. (they) flew 34. the brother ■ t 35. committee 36. (they) drank 39. piece (of breed) 40, (be) moved •, >v inpne w ,n»»ut* nnino be nanei nt»»e ntnna o'B'xiai n'tonna panel R"mb nlilno handling of cargo Own ittb) bom wtremawtwn I jwoti tm pwo bun «ab trtr • inx nbah 'bab -mx jibah 'baa jinn 1x win ,btr nie*ib nnelsn .trsxnxn bba ostein ,*|oa ,ea» nlixlR ai« nla nlnxlR rpta resources i'*** ■ I nmpft I § M H FOUNDATION