Esther Raab |
| Esther Raab (1894 - 1981, b. Petah Tikva, Israel), Israel's first "native" woman poet, was born into one of the founding families of one of the first agricultural settlements in Eretz Israel. In 1913 she joined the group that founded Kibbutz Degania. During World War I she joined a workers' commune and in 1919 she worked as a teacher and began to write her first poems. For five years she lived in Cairo, where she married, and from there she traveled to Paris. In 1922 her first poems were published. Eventually Raab settled in Tel Aviv, where her home became a center for writers and painters. Author of both prose and poetry, she is among the finest literary representatives of the pioneering generation.
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Books Published in Hebrew |
| Thistles, Hazim, 1930 [Kimshonim] |
| Poems, Massada, 1964 [Shirei Esther Raab] |
| Last Prayer, Am Oved, 1972 [Tefilah Aharonah] |
| A Destroyed Garden (prose and poetry), Tarmil, 1983 [Gan She-Harav] |
| Collected Poems, Zmora Bitan, 1988 [Col Ha-Shirim] |
Books in Translation |
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Selected Poems English: Bnei Brak, Ehud Ben-Ezer/ITHL, 1996 Individual poems have been published in: Danish, English, German, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and Yiddish. |
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