Aharon Appelfeld.
Thousands paid tribute to the
beloved poet as the casket was
placed in downtown Jerusalem's
Safra Square before his funeral.
Israeli President Moshe Katsav
and Prime Minister Ehud Barak
were also present.
FLORENCE WEIN GARDEN, 90, of
"One of the greatest artists of
Southfield, died Sept. 21.
Israel and the Jewish world has gone)
She is survived by her brothers and
from among us," Barak said in a
sisters-in-law, Louis and Betty
statement.
Weingarden of Southfield, Milton and
Amichai was born in Germany to
Henrietta Weingarden of Southfield;
a
religious
family. His family immi-
nieces and nephews. Ms. Weingarden
grated
to
Palestine
in 1936. He
was the loving sister of the late Ben
served
with
the
Jewish
Brigade of
Weingarden, the late Norman
the
British
Army
in
World
War II.
Weingarden.
He was a member of the Palmach
Contributions may be made to a
the strike force of the Haganah, the
charity of one's choice. Services and
fighting force of Jewish settlements
interment at Machpelah Cemetery.
in prestate Palestine. He also fought
Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial
in several of Israel's other wars.
Chapel.
He wrote 25 books of poetry,
some
of which have been translated
89,
of
Oak
Park,
NELLIE WYKOFF,
into
English,
two novels, two short
died Sept. 23.
story books and three children's
She is survived by her daughter and
books.
.son-in-law, Annette and Bernard Lash of
Amichai's poems have been trans-
Farmington Hills; grandchildren, Stacy
lated
into 37 languages, and was
and Steven Lash; sisters and brother-in-
perennially
mentioned as a potentia
law, Betty Benson, Rosanne and Martin
candidate
for
the Nobel Prize in lit-
Moss; sister-in-law, Ruth Craine. She
erature.
was the loving sister of the late Anna
Regarded as Israel's national poet,
Feinberg, the late Esther Finkelstein, the
Amichai lived in Jerusalem for his
late Robert Craine, the late Max Craine,
entire adult life, and his work often
the late Albert Craine; dear sister-in-law
revolved around seeing the possibili
of the late Arthur Benson, the late
ty of coexistence in opposites — in
Isadore Feinberg, the late Sidney
the mixture of tradition and moder-
Finkelstein and the late Molly Craine.
nity, beauty and bloodshed, that
Interment at Machpelah Cemetery.
mark Israel's capital and Israeli life.
Contributions may be directed to a
Amichai repeatedly urged peace
charity of one's choice. Arrangements by
with Israel's Arab neighbors — and
Ira Kaufman Chapel.
supported former Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin's initiative to make
peace with the Palestinians.
From the publication of his first
volume, Now and in Other Days,
(1955), Amichai was known for
modernizing Hebrew poetry — for
Jerusalem/JTA — Yehuda Amichai, a
fusing modern, technological slang
world renowned poet and one of
with biblical and medieval imagery.
Israel's most
He also fused personal and political
famous writers,
themes such as love and war.
died of cancer at
He is perhaps best known for
the age of 76
writing verse accessible to — and
Sept. 22.
relevant for — the average reader.
Amichai was
His poem "From Man You Are,
known for
To Man You Shall Return," written
blending mod-
during the 1973 Yom Kippur War,
ern ideas with
discussed a parent listening to the
ancient Jewish
noise made by a soldier son going
traditions, as
Yehuda Amichai
off to war as the parent accepts the
well as his inno-
prospects of the young soldier's pre-
vative use of
mature death. The poem became a
Hebrew.
consolation for Israeli parents who
"He was very Israeli and at the
had lost their children in war.
same time very Jewish in his writ-
ing," said his close friend, writer
Selzer, the late Nathan Selzer and the
late Esther Selzer.
Interment at Machpelah Cemetery.
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Association for Residential Care.
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and expressions of kindness and concern during the
family's recent bereavement.
Israeli Poet
Dies At 76