Pinchas Sadeh

Pinchas Sadeh
Born	Pinchas Feldman 1929 Lemberg, Poland
Died	January 30, 1994 (64 years old) Jerusalem, Israel
Occupation	Novelist and poet
Nationality	Israeli
Notable awards	The 1990 Bialik Prize for Literature

Pinchas Sadeh, also Pinhas Sadeh, (Hebrew: פנחס שדה‎, born in Lemberg, Poland 1929, died January 30, 1994, in Jerusalem, Israel) was a Polish-born Israeli novelist and poet.

Biography

Pinhas Feldman (later Sadeh) was born in Galicia (then part of Poland). His family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, settling in Tel Aviv. He lived and studied in Kibbutz Sarid. Later, he studied in England. Sadeh worked as a shepherd at Kibbutz Kinneret. There he met Yael Sacks, whom he married in 1956 but the union lasted only three months. In 1962-1969, he was married to Yehudit.He began publishing his work in 1945.

Sadeh died in Jerusalem at the age of 64.

Literary career

Sadeh's literary output consisted of six collections of verse, two novels, a novella, four books of essays, a children`s book and a collection of Hassidic folktales. Sadeh's work addressed elementary existential issues. He spoke of his writing as "theological" and a "moral act." His first poem translated into English, "Proverbs of the Virgins," appeared in Commentary magazine in August 1950. His collections of poetry included Burden of Dumah. His novels included One Man's Condition and Death of Avimelech. He also wrote an autobiographical account of his early life (up to age 27), Life as a Parable. Life as a Parable became his most celebrated work. According to one literary critic, it "expressed a 'yearning for religiosity' in a country that sanctified secularism."

Sade also wrote comic books, which he signed with a pseudonym.He was the author of most of the comics published in Haaretz Shelanu, a children's magazine, using the name "Yariv Amazya." Many of his comics were science-fiction based.

Awards and recognition

File:PikiWiki Israel 12782 memorial plate on the house of pinhas sadeh house.jpg

Memorial plaque for Pinchas Sadeh

Sadeh won the 1990 Bialik Prize for Literature, jointly with T. Carmi and Natan Yonatan.

See also

• Hebrew literature
• Israeli literature

External links

• An Existential Treatment of Biblical Theme: Pinhas Sadeh's "The Death of Abimelech"
• Pinchas Sadeh’s Religiosity

• The life and loves of writer Pinhas Sadeh
• The life and loves of Writer Pinhas Sadeh
• Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature: Pinchas Sade
• Out of Israel: The Odyssey of Pinhas Sadeh
• The life and loves of Writer Pinhas Sadeh
• Moori, Uri Moori, Jerusalem Post
• Hebrew Comics: A History