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Pinchas Sadeh, also Pinhas Sadeh, (; born in
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, Poland 1929; died 29 January 1994 in
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) 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
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in 1934, settling in
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. He lived and studied in Kibbutz
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. In 1947 he moved to Jerusalem and published poems and essays in various periodicals. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he was drafted into the IDF and served as a sergeant commanding a combat unit. His first poetry collection, ''A Burden Resembling'', was published in 1951 by Sifriat Poalim. For about two years (1952–1954), he lived and worked in the kibbutzim Kinneret and Yifat (in the latter, he worked as a teacher). He returned to Jerusalem, got married, later divorced (1955), and then wrote the autobiographical-philosophical novel ''Life as a Parable'' (1958) Later, he studied in England. Sadeh worked as a shepherd at Kvutzat Kinneret. There he met Yael Sacks, whom he married in 1956 but the marriage lasted only three months. In 1962–1969, he was married to Yehudit. He began publishing his work in 1945.The life and loves of Writer Pinhas Sadeh
/ref> 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." The drive to exist 'differently'—which was both the impetus and the goal of his creative work—served as a formative force that shaped a correspondence between its formal and thematic values. This impulse consistently propelled him forward, and with it, his expression remained faithful to the same tonalities and messages, consciously disregarding contemporary trends—except for minor formal refinements. Indeed, both 'otherness' and 'irrationality' were the preferred expressions of that same formative force, which rendered his body of work a unified whole, with its parts maintaining a kind of internal coherence despite their profound contradictions.
Sadeh's
poetic logic, there never was—nor could there ever be—any true purpose to life within the civil, simplistic, material reality, which inevitably leads to the nullification of existence—to death. A person of spirit, however, must, in an act of courageous protest, find a true meaning for life and a true love for life. Only the search for 'the other reality'—alluded to in sleep and in the vision of a noble, symbolic death—might offer an alternative morality, and even a new way of self-perception, religious at its core: a perception of 'the human condition' before the absolute Other—Go

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

Sadeh won the 1990
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for Literature, jointly with T. Carmi and Natan Yonatan. He was a 1973 recipient of the
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.


See also

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An Existential Treatment of Biblical Theme: Pinhas Sadeh's "The Death of Abimelech"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sadeh, Pinchas 1929 births 1994 deaths Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Polish male novelists Israeli male novelists Israeli male poets 20th-century Polish novelists 20th-century Polish poets Polish male poets 20th-century Polish male writers Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works Deaths from lung cancer in Israel Burials at Har HaMenuchot Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe)