{"product_id":"you-who-cross-my-path-9781938160875","title":"You Who Cross My Path","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2015 Israel Prize in Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBilingual Edition Translated from the Hebrew by Tsipi Keller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first U.S. publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli poetry, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton's bilingual collection dramatically expands the scope of biographical experience and memory, ultimately resurrecting a vanishing world and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2015 Israel Prize in Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBilingual Edition Translated from the Hebrew by Tsipi Keller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first U.S. publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli poetry, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton's bilingual collection dramatically expands the scope of biographical experience and memory, ultimately resurrecting a vanishing world and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eErez Bitton\u003c\/b\u003e: Born in 1942 to Moroccan parents in Oran, Algeria, Erez Bitton emigrated to Israel in 1948. Blinded by a stray hand grenade he found near his home in Lod, he spent the rest of his childhood in Jerusalem's School for the Blind. He received a B.A. in Social Work from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an M.A. in Psychology from Bar Ilan University. He wrote a weekly column for the Israeli daily \u003ci\u003eMa'ariv\u003c\/i\u003e and worked as a social worker and as a psychologist. His first two books, \u003ci\u003eA Moroccan Offering\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Na'na\u003c\/i\u003e (1979), established him as the founding father of Mizrahi poetry in Israel--the first poet to take on the conflict between North African immigrants and the Ashkenazi society, and the first to use Judeo-Arabic dialect in his poetry. The author of five poetry collections and a play, he has served as chairman of the Hebrew Writers Association, and is the editor-in-chief of the literary journal \u003ci\u003eApyrion\u003c\/i\u003e, which he founded in 1982. Among his awards are the Miriam Talpir Prize (1982), the Prime Minister's Prize (1988), the Yehuda Amichai Prize (2014), as well as the Bialik Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2014). His collection \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Na'na\u003c\/i\u003e was published in French (Editions Saint Germain, 1981). Bitton lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, with his wife Rahel Calahorra, and is father to a son and a daughter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTsipi Keller\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the U.S. since 1974. The author of nine books, she is the recipient of several literary awards, including National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships, New York Foundation for the Arts fiction grants, and an Armand G. Erpf award from Columbia University. Her most recent translation collections are \u003ci\u003ePoets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (SUNY Press), and \u003ci\u003eThe Hymns of Job \u0026amp; Other Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e a Lannan Translation Selection (BOA Editions). In addition to Erez Bitton's \u003ci\u003eYou Who Cross My Path\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA Editions), her selected volume of Raquel Chalfi's poems, \u003ci\u003eReality Crumbs\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published in 2015 (SUNY Press). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEli Hirsch\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, editor, and literary critic. Born in Petach Tikva in 1962, he published his first poems in 1979, and holds a graduate degree in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University. He is the author of four volumes of poetry, and his most recent collection is \u003ci\u003eHanging Gardens of Tel Aviv\u003c\/i\u003e (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2012). He has published numerous book reviews and essays, and, since 2007, writes a weekly column on poetry in the Literary Supplement of the daily Yediot Ahronot. He was Editor in Chief at Modan Publishing, and is currently (since 2003) the Literary Editor at Hargol Publishing House. Hirsch teaches Creative Writing in the Literature Department at Tel Aviv University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50857169387794,"sku":"9781938160875","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_51d26ddb-7fdf-4101-aaf0-851430a9a0b9.jpg?v=1737523717","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/you-who-cross-my-path-9781938160875","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}