Dan Miron on Bialik:

"Critics pontificated that in [his odes and elegies] Bialik perfectly merged his personal pain with the nation's historical suffering. The individual and collective identities became one. Bialik articulated the pains and the hopes of the collective 'soul of the people'; hence his greatness.

The poet himself, however, was unhappy with this "ideal" fusion..."

#poetry #hebrew #hebrewliterature #jewishstudies

“Translation in Diaspora: Sephardic Spanish-Hebrew Translations in the Sixteenth Century" (2016) https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:10227/ #sefarad #sephardic #siglodeoro #earlymodern #translation #hebrewliterature #Amadís #Celestina #YosefHakohen #Historiadelasindias