Entrance is free of charge, but advance registration is required
9:30-10:00 Reception and Registration
10:00-11:30 | A Revolutionary with a Father, a Revolutionary with a Mother | Chair: Tamar Wolf-Monzon
Greetings
Dan Miron | Contending Sources of Inspiration in the Poetics of Yehuda Amichai's Early Poetry
11:30-12:00 | Coffee Break
12:00-13:30 | Between Terrestrial and Celestial Jerusalem | Chair: Vered Shemtov
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi | “Mah adameh lakh ha-bat Yerushalayim, mah ashveh lakh
va-anaḥamekh”: Yehuda Amichai Consoles the Residents of Jerusalem
Nitza Ben-Dov | “Kol ha-‘ir hefker ve-khol ha-‘ir prutsah. Prutsah la-ruḥot vela-oyvim vela- me’ahavim”: Jerusalem and the Wasteland in the Novel Not of This Time, Not of This Place.
Galili Shaḥar | The Prayers Remain: On the Liturgical Remnants in Yehuda Amichai’s Poetry
13:30-15:00 | Luncheon (by invitation only)
15:00-17:00 | Life and Literature | Chair: Na’ama Rokem
Ariel Hirschfeld – “Little Ruth”: Childhood, Death and Commemoration in the Language of Amichai’s Poem
Tamar Hess | Memory and the Autobiographical Mode in Amichai’s Poetry
Vered Shemtov | The Lyrical Space: Re-reading Tiyul yehudy and Tiyul israeli
Ido Bassok | What Benefit and what Harm Does a Literary Author’s Biography Create?
17:00-17:30 | Coffee Break
17:30-19:30 | Authors Read Amichai | Chair: Giddon Ticotsky
Agi Mishol | What Does Amichai Think about King David? A Reading of the Poem “King David Lives and Exists; You Are That Man” in Open Closed Open
Ronny Someck | The Courage to Write “I Love You”: On Yehuda Amichai’s Love Poems
Bacol Serlui | Yehuda Amichai: The Heretic as a Believer, The Heretic as a Teacher
Amichai Chasson | “I Opened an Iron Door that Read ‘Emergency’”
- Entrance is free of charge, but advance registration is required
- The ticket includes entry to all events.
- The program is subject to change.
