Yocheved Bat-Miriam

During this period, she participated in the revolutionary literary activities of the “Hebrew Octoberists”, a Communist literary group, and one of her earliest poem-cycles, a paean to revolutionary Russia entitled Erez (Land) was published in the group's anthology in 1926. She is unusual among Hebrew poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine, later to be called Israel, in 1928. Her first book of poetry, Merahok ("From a distance") was published in 1929. In 1948, her son Nahum (Zuzik) Hazaz from the writer Haim Hazaz died in the 1947–1949 Palestine war. Since then she never wrote a poem again. • Illustration — Moshe Lifshits, Israel Zmora, the hostess Luba Goldberg, Avraham Shlonsky, Lea Goldberg, Yocheved Bat-Miriam (1938)

• Name — Yocheved Bat-Miriam • Birth Name — Yocheved Zhlezniak • Born — 5 March 1901 • Birthplace — Belarus, Russian Empire • Died — 7 January 1980 • Place of death — Israel • Occupation — Poet • Language — Hebrew • Notable Works — Merahok ("From a Distance") • Spouse — Haim Hazaz • Children — Nahum (Zuzik) Hazaz • Awards — * 1963: Brenner Prize • 1964: Bialik Prize • 1972: Israel Prize • Native Name — יוכבד בת-מרים

• 1929: Merahok ("From a distance"). • 1937: Erets Yisra'el ("The Land of Israel"). • 1940: Re'ayon ("Interview"). • 1942: Demuyot meofek ("Images from the Horizon"). • 1942: Mishirei Russyah ("Poems of Russia"). • 1943: Shirim La-Ghetto ("Poems for the Ghetto"). • 1963: Shirim ("Poems"). • 1975: Beyn Chol Va-Shemesh ("Between Sand and Sun"). • 2014: Machatzit Mul Machatzit: Kol Ha-Shirim ("Collected Poems").