Yitzhak Orpaz (at birth Averbukh , since 1982 - Averbukh-Orpaz , Hebrew יצחק אוורבוך-אורפז ; October 15, 1923, Zinkov - August 14, 2015 ) - Israeli writer, poet and translator, editor. He wrote in Hebrew .
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| Awards | Israel Prize ( 2005 ) [d] ( 1976 ) Bialik Literary Prize ( 1986 ) [d] ( 2004 ) |
Biography
In 1927, the family left the USSR and settled in Lipkany ( Bessarabia ), where he graduated from high school [3] [4] . In 1938, he independently moved to mandated Palestine , settled in Magdiel [5] . During the Second World War he served as part of the Jewish Brigade in the British Army in Europe; the parents and sister remaining in Bessarabia were killed in 1942 . In 1946, he was discharged from the British army and returned to Palestine. He served in artillery during the War of Independence (1948). He made his debut in a military newspaper in 1949 , then changed his name from Averbukh to Orpaz.
He studied philosophy and literature in Hebrew at Tel Aviv University . After 13 years of service in the Israeli army, he got a job as editor of the nightly news in the newspaper Al Ha Mishmar. The first prose book, Wild Grass, was published in 1959 . He published a number of novels, novels and short stories, autobiographical prose, as well as a collection of poems. In the 1970s, he also translated from Yiddish and in 1982 again changed his name to Averbukh-Orpaz.
Rewards
- Laureate of the Bialik Prize (1986) [6] .
- Laureate of the Israel Literature Award 2005 .
Links
- Orpaz Yitzhak - article from the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia