Karlu
Modern Hebrew poems and online bookshop

Which Israeli poets do you recommend? I prefer if you suggest post-1967 Israeli poets. Basically I am a beginner in Modern Hebrew, and as in other languages poems or song lyrics do really help me.


Also, do you know any good Modern Hebrew online bookstore? (Preferably from Europe or Israel)


Thanks :)

Feb 7, 2016 4:37 PM
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A big thanks to those who have answered my questions :)



February 8, 2016

Hi Karl,

You can buy modern Hebrew books online from the Israeli bookstore Steimatzky's. They ship to the US and Europe (although not so cheap). http://www.steimatzky.co.il/Steimatzky/pages/default.aspx


For poetry, you might like this volume of poems by Yehuda Amichai titled "Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems." It has facing English and Hebrew pages, free shipping to Europe from Book Depository: http://www.bookdepository.com/Poems-of-Jerusalem-and-Love-Poems-Yehud-Amichai/9781878818195

בהצלחה!

February 8, 2016

Well, I guess you can read Natan Zach's poems, but if you'rea beginner I think you might find songs more helpful than poems, since peoms are written in a very poetical language that is not used everyday

So here are some popular Israeli songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zS9D2JHUf4 איש של לילה

translation + lyrics for איש של לילה 

http://lyricstranslate.com/en/ish-shel-layla-%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A9-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%94-nights-man.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR1U4Lr6eVw מקלט

lyrics for מקלט

http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=16155&wrkid=37498

דובדבן https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsij39RXVYc

lyrics for דובדבן

http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=4592&wrkid=33376

ילד של אבא https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgsLpE4ULfA&;

lyrics for ילד של אבא

http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=620&wrkid=36558

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwpLIXdrHS0 מלכת השושנים *

lyrics for מלכת השושנים

http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=16843&wrkid=40041


She uses the word 'וודג here which you probably won't find in the dicitonary because it means "mouth" in gay slang

Hope that helps 


February 8, 2016