Shulamith Hareven ( he, שולמית הראבן;

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, Tal Yaeri; February 14, 1930 – November 25, 2003) was an Israeli author and essayist.

Biography

She was born as Shulamith Riftin to a Zionist family. Her father, Avraham was a lawyer. They immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1940. At 17, she joined the

Haganah Haganah ( he, הַהֲגָנָה, lit. ''The Defence'') was the main Zionist paramilitary organization of the Jewish population ("Yishuv") in Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and its disestablishment in 1948, when it became the core of the ...

and became a combat medic in the

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; serving in the Battle for Jerusalem. Later, she was assigned to help establish Israel Defense Forces Radio; beginning the station's broadcasts in 1950. During the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War, she served as a war correspondent. In 1962, she published her first book, a collection of poems titled ''Predatory Jerusalem''. Since then, she has written prose, translations, and plays. She published essays and articles about Israeli society and culture in literary journals such as ''Masa'', ', and ', and in several newspapers, including '' Al Ha-Mishmar'', '' Maariv'', and '' Yedioth Ahronoth''. Her essays have been collected in four volumes. She also published a thriller under the pen name "Tal Yaeri". Her books have been translated into 21 languages. She was the first woman inducted into the

Academy of the Hebrew Language The Academy of the Hebrew Language ( he, הָאָקָדֶמְיָה לַלָּשׁוֹן הָעִבְרִית, ''ha-akademyah la-lashon ha-ivrit'') was established by the Israeli government in 1953 as the "supreme institution for scholarship on t ...

and was an activist for Peace Now. In 1995 the French weekly ''

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'' deemed her an Author of Peace and listed her among the 100 women "who move the world". Hareven protected her privacy: "I have always thought that culture begins where they know how to separate personal matters from public matters," she wrote in Hebrew in the foreword to her last book, ''Many Days, an Autobiography''. She was married to , an intelligence officer who briefly served with

Mossad Mossad ( , ), ; ar, الموساد, al-Mōsād, ; , short for ( he, המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, links=no), meaning 'Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations'. is the national intelligence agency ...

. Their daughter is the writer

Gail Hareven Gail Hareven ( he, גַּיִל הַרְאֶבֶן); born 1959 Jerusalem) is an Israeli author. Biography Gail Hareven studied at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Shalom Hartman Institute. Her work appears in The New Yorker. She has publis ...

. She is buried at Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem. An archive of her materials may be found at Ben-Gurion University.

Works translated into English

* City of Many Days (novel, 1977) * The Miracle Hater (novella, 1988) * Prophet (novella, 1990) * Twilight and Other Stories (1991) * Thirst: The Desert Trilogy (1996) * The Vocabulary of Peace (essays, 1995)

References

*Much of the content of this article is from article שולמית הראבן (Shulamith Hareven) in the Hebrew-language Wikipedia. Retrieved November 30, 2005.
"Shulamith Hareven"
at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
Jewish Women's Archive
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External Links

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Jewish Women's Archive page
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