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Leah Goldberg's Room for Rent

Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 3:16 p.m.

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No Israeli childhood experience would be complete without Leah Goldberg. Her story \\u201cRoom for Rent\\u201d was published in 1948 and is one of the most classic children\\u2019s books available in Hebrew. Shmuel Katz\\u2019s illustrations bring Goldberg\\u2019s words to life in both the original and in Jessica Setbon\\u2019s 2017 translation.

Leah Goldberg born in K\\xf6nigsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), in 1911, moved to Mandate Palestine in 1935. Well known during her lifetime as a poet, author, and translator, she is remembered as one of Israel's great authors and literary scholars. She earned a PhD in Semitic languages from Bonn University and helped found Hebrew University's Department of Comparative Literature, which she chaired until her death in 1970.

Previous Episodes on Leah Goldberg:

https://tlv1.fm/israel-in-translation/2019/08/21/a-fairy-tale-by-leah-goldberg/

https://tlv1.fm/arts-culture/2014/04/02/i-have-been-planted-with-the-pines-israel-in-translation/

Text:

Leah Goldberg, Room for Rent. Illustrated by Shmuel Katz, translated by Jessica Setbon. Gefen Publishing House, 2018.

Music:

Leah Goldberg: Le-mi She-ino Ma'amin, sung by Yehudit Ravitz

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