Harold Schimmel

Harold Schimmel (b. 1935, United States) immigrated to Israel in 1962 and has lived in Jerusalem since. He has taught English and American literature at universities in Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv and California. He has translated collections of the poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg, Avot Yeshurun and Yehuda Amichai. He has published several poems in English in Israel, and his first Hebrew poem appeared in 1967.

Books Published in Hebrew

Poetry

The Poems, Get That, 1968 [Ha-Shirim]

Songs of the Zion Hotel, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1974 [Shirei Malon Tzion]

Arah 1-8, Siman Kriah, 1979 [Ar'ah Alef-Het]

Lowell, Hadarim, 1986 [Lowell]

The Book Midrash Tadshei, Am Oved, 1993 [Sefer Midrash Tadshei]

Poem, Bitan, 1995 [Nocheah]

Books in Translation

From Island to Island (Selected Poems)
English: Jerusalem, Ibis, 1998

Selected Articles
English: Jerusalem, Ibis, 1998

Individual poems have been published in Russian.