HistoryFigure1910–1970

Nathan Alterman

נתן אלתרמן

Region: Pologne et Israël

History register · custodian, not owner

Major Israeli poet and publicist, whose verse chronicles accompanied the struggles of the Yishuv. Author of the collection Stars Outside.

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Sources & resources

Y. Zmora, Sifrut al Parashat Dorot (1950)
S.Y. Penueli, Sifrut ki-Feshutah (1963)
A. Ukhmani, Le-Ever ha-Adam (1953)
« Alterman, Nathan », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
D. Miron, Arba Panim ba-Sifrut Bat Yameinu (1962)
B. Kurzweil, Bein ?azon le-Vein ha-Absurdi (1966)
D. Sadan, Bein Din ve-?eshbon (1963)
D. Kenaani, Beinam le-Vein Zemannam (1955)
Zach, Akhshav (1959)
Waxman, Literature, 5 (1960), 22–24 (1960)
?uri, Massa (1954)
M. Shamir, Be-Kulmus Mahir (1960)
M. Shamir, Natan Alterman: ha-Meshorer ke-Manhig (1988)
Y. Nave, Biblical Motifs Representing the "Lyrical Self" in the Works of Scholem Aleichem, Natan Alterman, Lea Goldberg, Ariela Deem, and Shulamit Har-Even (1987)
M. Dorman, Alterman vi-Ye?irato (1989)
Z. Mendelson, Natan Alterman (1973)
A. Schiller, Caminante en su tiempo: la poesia de Natan Alterman
M. Dorman, Natan Alterman: Pirkei Biyografyah (1991)
R. Kartun-Blum, Ha-Le? ve-ha?el (1994)
Z. Shamir, Od ?ozer ha-Niggun: Shirat Alterman bi-Rei ha-Modernizm (1989)
H. Shaham, Hedim shel Niggun (1997)
Z. Shamir, Al Et ve-al Atar: Poetikah u-Politikah be-Shirat Alterman (1999)
Y. Ben Tolila and A. Komem (eds.), Konkordan?yah shel Natan Alterman (1998)
M.E. Varela Morena, Literatura hebrea contemporanea
D. Miron, Parpar min ha-Tola'at (2001)
D. Ider, Alterman-Baudelaire, Paris-Tel Aviv, Urbaniyut u-Mitos (2004)
H. Barzel, Avraham Shlonski, Natan Alterman, Lea Goldberg (2001)