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Seller: judaica-bookstore ✉️ (2,810) 100%, Location: TEL AVIV, IL, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 285493919079 HAIM GOURI Hand SIGNED INSCRIBE Jewish POETRY BOOK Judaica ISRAEL Palmach HEBREW. DESCRIPTION : Up for auction is a thrilling find.  It's a Jewish-Hebrew-Israeli POETRY BOOK which is HAND SIGNED and personaly INSCRIBED by the acclaimed Israeli Hebrew POET and WRITER , The lyrics writer of the immortal legendary PALMACH and WAR of INDEPENDENCE SONGS and POEMS , HAIM GOURI who has recently passed away at the age of 94 . Gouri has written to his long time Palmach friend Tzvi Sarig : "In the Name of the LONG JOURNEY All Along the Way - Yours with Friendship - HAIM GOURI ". The word FRIENDSHIP is written in Hebrew as   " רעות - REUT " - Perhaps the most well know and popular 1948 war song " The Friendship Song - שיר הרעות " .  Original illustrated black DJ. ( Haim Gouri portrait by Avigdor Arikha ). HC with gilt headings. A heart breaking photo of very young Gouri as a frontispiece. 9.5 x 7 " . 356  pp . EXCELLENT condition . Tightly bound . Perfectly clean ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images ) . Will be sent inside a protective rigid packaging .  AUTHENTICITY : This is an ORIGINAL vintage copy , HAND SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the poet. NOT a reproduction or a reprint or recent edition  , It holds a life long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.   PAYMENTS : Payment method accepted : Paypal & All credit cards. SHIPPMENT : SHIPP worldwide via registered airmail is $ 25 . Will be sent inside a protective packaging . Handling around  5-10 days after payment.  Haim Gouri (Hebrew: חיים גורי‎; October 9, 1923 – January 31, 2018) was an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. Contents  [hide]  1 Biography 2 Literary career 3 Awards and honors 4 Published works 4.1 Poetry 4.2 Fiction 4.3 Non-fiction 5 Documentary films 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Biography[edit] Haim Gurfinkel (later Gouri) was born in Tel Aviv.[1] After studying at the Kadoorie Agricultural High School, he joined the Palmach and completed a commander's course.[2] He participated in the bombing of a British radar station being used to track Aliyah Bet ships carrying illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine. In 1947 he was sent to Hungary to bring Holocaust survivors to Mandate Palestine. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War he was a deputy company commander in the Palmach's Negev Brigade.[3] Gouri studied literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Sorbonne in Paris. As a journalist he worked for LaMerhav and later, Davar. He achieved fame with his coverage of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann.[3] Gouri lived with his wife, Aliza, in Jerusalem.[4] Gouri died on January 31, 2018 at the age of 94. Literary career[edit] Haim Gouri (left) in the Palmach Gouri's first published poem, Day Voyage, appeared in Mishmar, edited by Abraham Shlonsky, in 1945. His first complete volume of poetry, Flowers of Fire, was published in 1949 following the Israeli War of Independence. Awards and honors[edit] Haim Gouri and his wife Aliza The film The 81st Blow, which he wrote, co-produced, and co-directed, was nominated for the 1974 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. It is part of a powerful Holocaust trilogy that includes The Last Sea and Flames in the Ashes.[5] In 1975, Gouri was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature.[6] In 1988, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for Hebrew poetry.[7] In 1998, he won the Uri Zvi Grinberg award.[4] In 2016, Gouri rejected an award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport of the annual 50,000 shekelprize for “Zionist works of art”.[8] Published works[edit] Poetry[edit] Flowers of Fire, Years of Fire (1949) Poems of the Seal (1954) Compass Rose (1960) Movement to Touch (1968) Gehazi Visions (1974) The Eagle Line (1975) Words in My Love-Sick Blood (selected poems in English translation). Detroit: Wayne State University, 1996, ISBN 0-8143-2594-7. The Poems, in two volumes (1998) Fiction[edit] The Chocolate Deal (1965). English translations: New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968, ISBN 1-125-15196-X. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8143-2800-8. The Crazy Book (1971) The Interrogation, The Story of Reuel (1980) Non-fiction[edit] Facing the Glass Booth: the Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1962). English translation: Detroit: Wayne State University, 2004, ISBN 0-8143-3087-8. Pages of Jerusalem, notes (1968) Documentary films[edit] The 81st Blow (Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad, 1974), distributed with English subtitles by "American Federation of Jewish Fighters, Camp Inmates and Nazi Victims" The Last Sea (Ha-Yam Ha'Aharon, 1980) Flames in the Ashes (Pnei Hamered, 1985) Home From Hard Times to Bad Times Poet Haim Gouri takes the State of Israel personally. He is troubled by what he calls the prevailing wickedness, but still believes in the justness of our path. Shiri Lev-Ari Oct 01, 2006 12:00 AM   0comments    Zen Subscribe now   Shareshare on facebook   Tweet send via email reddit stumbleupon "How are you doing, Gouri?" he was asked numerous times this past summer, and always hastened to reply: "Lousy." During the war in Lebanon, he barely slept. He was glued to the media reports, and lamented, agonized and got worked up over everything: the situation we were in, all the media prattle, the conduct of our leaders in the war. And now, too, he says we are still right in the midst of the storm. The story isn't over yet. Haim Gouri takes the State of Israel personally. The man who wrote poems and songs that became part of the lifeblood of Israeli poetry - "Here Lie Our Bodies," "Bab al Wad" - treats Israel with a kind of seriousness that's hard to come by these days. Nothing passes him by casually. Including the last war. Or as his daughters like to say, "Dad works overtime in caring." The interview with him also came about after a series of conversations, questions, investigations, exchanges of views, exchanges of ideas. At first he didn't want to be interviewed at all; he ascribes such importance to words that he feels the need to be cautious with them - "These questions touch on places of pain, and you're judged on your answers." When he does accede, he can speak at length about the War of Independence or about our relations with the Arabs, tell a story from the past, quote entire poems - Tchernikovsky, Alterman, Shlonsky - and refuel himself with a pipe and a cup of strong black coffee. An aroma of tobacco and mint pervades his small study next to the balcony. Gouri writes on a computer, but the old habits are still in evidence when he goes over a printed text of his with a pen, making corrections by hand. Add me to the lepers "One of the poems that has enthralled me my whole life," says Gouri, "is the poetess Rachel's 'Yom Besora' ('Day of Good News'), in which she alludes to the tidings of the lepers from the Second Book of Kings. She writes: 'But I will not want news of redemption/ If it comes from the mouth of a leper.' Twenty years later, in July 1946, the Irgun blows up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. The next day Haaretz published a front-page article headlined 'The Horror,' and Rachel's poem appeared in it. This poem expresses the brutal collision between the absolute and the historic - between the moral imperative 'Thou shalt not kill' and the history that is soaked in blood and violence. Later on, in my poems I ask Rachel to add me to the four lepers from the Second Book of Kings. Because I, too, was among them, among the spillers of blood, among the fighters. I was a part of wars whose justness I believed in." Keep updated: Sign up to our newsletter Email* Sign up Gouri has lived his whole life amid a web of contradictions that continues to this day. "I grew up in a real socialist Zionist home," he says. "Even back in Russia my parents spoke and wrote a wonderful Hebrew. They were vegetarians and naturalists, and they were pacifists. I attended the School For Workers' Children, two years behind my eldest sister and Yitzhak Rabin, who were in the same class. We were raised on zealous Zionism and Hebrew Labor on the one hand, and on the Brotherhood of Nations - with the Arab worker - on the other. "I remember the protest watches in the orchards of Petah Tikva and Kfar Sava, in which Shlonsky and the greatest writers participated, on behalf of Hebrew Labor. Shlonsky derided employers of Arabs for caring more for their personal gain than for the homeland. This hurt the Arab worker. As a boy in Emek Hefer I witnessed the drying of the swamps, the planting of the orchards by my uncle and his comrades, but I also saw the Arabs who lived there - on the land that was purchased by the Jewish National Fund - uprooted from their land, sometimes violently. My mother cried for two weeks after she saw two fellows from the 'Association for Hebrew Production' scattering in the street crates of cucumbers and tomatoes that belonged to an Arab peddler who'd come into our neighborhood. "On the front page of Al Hamishmar the slogan 'For Zionism, For Socialism, For the Brotherhood of Nations' appeared. This web of contradictions is still going on today, and I'm already an old man. Zionism, as is known, did not come to fulfillment via the Brotherhood of Nations. It is still at the height of the hundred years' war. And not much of Socialism is left in Israel. Israeli society, shamefully, is a society of intolerable class polarization." Third floor, no elevator Everyone who knows him calls him Gouri. He was born Haim Gurfinkel; when he was young, his friends took to calling him Jouri. In 1945, when he published his first poem in Al Hamishmar, Avraham Shlonsky dropped the apostrophe from the Hebrew gimmel, and he became known as Gouri. In recent months, Gouri and his wife Aliza have been busy transferring his archival material to the Jewish National and University Library. They are sorting thousands of papers and documents, correspondences with writers and public figures, chapters of memoirs, newspaper clippings, reviews, interviews, manuscripts, drafts. Sometimes Aliza reads him a poem or an essay he wrote 30 years ago and Guri listens in astonishment, as if encountering it for the first time. He notes the inherent contradiction in his being both a poet and a journalist, quoting the midrashic saying, ehoz bazeh vegam mezeh, al tanach yadkha, about doing two things at once. "I wanted to be wherever things were happening. There was something dybbuk-like in this need." A good number of new poems have also been accumulating on his desk. The new cycle is entitled Eival (after the mountain connected with the biblical curse). A publication date has not yet been set for it. "Sometimes I feel like that's it, I've finished writing, but afterward I feel the total opposite," he says. Currently, he is also working on a comprehensive collection of articles that he wrote about the relation between poetry and time, on the encounter between literature and history. In another month, he'll be 83. He was born in Tel Aviv in 1923, and as an adolescent, studied at the Kadouri Agricultural School. In 1941, he enlisted in the Palmach, and served in it for eight years. In 1947, he was sent to Europe and commanded the Israel Defense Forces' first paratroop course in Czechoslovakia. Then the War of Independence began and Gouri returned to Israel and joined the 7th Battalion of the Negev Brigade. He took part in the conquest of Be'er Sheva and Abu-Agila in Sinai, and in the liberation of Eilat. He and Aliza have three daughters and six grandchildren. They live in Jerusalem in a simple building, on the third floor with no elevator. He goes up and down the stairs with relative ease. His first book of poetry, "Flowers of Fire," was published in 1949. Then came "Till Dawn," a book of poetry and a diary of the war. Throughout the 1950s he worked as a journalist for Lamerhav and Davar, published many books of poetry and prose, and also made three documentary films about the Holocaust and the founding of the state - "The 81st Blow," "The Last Sea" and "Flames in the Ashes." In 1962 he was awarded the Sokolov Prize for Journalism, and in 1988, the Israel Prize for Literature. In the course of his life, his political views have changed. In 1967, he was active in the establishment of the Movement for Greater Israel. However, in the years after the Six-Day War, when he saw the wrongs of the occupation, he gradually parted with this vision. Still, in 1995, he was one of the founders of The Third Way movement, which opposed a withdrawal from the Golan Heights. He eventually abandoned that platform as well. In recent years, Gouri has taken part in struggles against administrative detentions, home demolitions and expulsions. Then, this summer, came the second war in Lebanon. "I differentiate between hard times and bad times, and these are bad times," he says. "People often seek me out as if I'm one of the elders of the tribe, wanting to know what I think. We've been through harder times than these. The siege of Jerusalem in '48 was harder than this recent sitting in shelters. And also than the terrible terror attacks of recent years. In hard times, a nation often reveals its hidden strengths. It's toughening. But wickedness has a crumbling effect. We're living in a period of wickedness: score-settling, a war of general against general, minister against minister, inquiry committees, informing, leaks, alibis, 'He did it, not me.' This has no remedy." Lost wars of attrition You believe Israel was justified in going to war this summer. Yet how, in your view, was this war different from the rest of Israel's wars? "The War of Independence won sweeping national consensus right from the start, after November 29. We were attacked and we had to fight or be annihilated. Not a single protest song was written in that period. There were a few songs of black humor - 'When we die they'll bury us on the hills of Bab al Wad/ There they have snipers who shoot bullets/ Bullets that pierce armor.' Only toward the end of the war were there any cracks in this unity. S. Yizhar wrote 'The Captive' and 'Hirbat Hiz'a' and sparked an uproar. It's painful, but Hebrew literature would be lacking if these stories weren't written. For the first time, a crack formed in the culture of the besieged and the just. "Mivtza Kadesh (The Sinai Campaign) was a war of choice, and aroused controversy - mainly regarding the collaboration with the British and French. The glorious Six-Day War earned total agreement. The debate about its implications only began on the seventh day. This was a war that unified the country between the sea and the Jordan River, but critically divided the people, and the same dispute has continued to be exacerbated until today, 40 years later - we and the Arabs, the borders of the state. "Then came the Yom Kippur War. This was a war for survival and I took part in it as an education officer in an armored division in Sinai. I was 50 then. In December 1977, I visited Egypt for the first time in my life. I went there with a delegation of Israeli journalists that traveled to Cairo after Sadat's visit to Jerusalem. There I met a leading Egyptian intellectual, Dr. Hussein Fawzi, and we talked about the Israel-Egypt wars. He said the Egyptian assault on Israel in May 1948 was a historic crime. And then he said something else that I'll never forget: 'In the Six-Day War you humiliated us. Our wives were ashamed of us, our children scorned us. Had Israeli intelligence read the Egyptian poetry that was written after 1967, it would have known that 1973 was inevitable. Every good intelligence officer must read poetry.' "And we hadn't read it. And we're not reading it today, either. If we were reading it today, we'd understand the Arabs have changed. In 1947, Gandhi (Rehavam Ze'evi) hung a picture of the Jerusalem Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini in the cultural room at Kibbutz Maoz and wrote underneath: 'Our Motto: Ishmael is a fool.' No, Ishmael is not a fool." As for the first Lebanon War, Gouri agrees in retrospect that it was "diplomatically foolish and morally criminal," as Yossi Sarid said at the time, noting that the Israeli intelligentsia opposed the war from the beginning. "I was serving as a reservist then and I wasn't among the people who warned against it. I'm not proud of my position then. Maybe it happened because of my deep connection to the IDF. "The last war earned national agreement right at the start, including among the Zionist left. Without going into the details of the military moves, I thought that an Israeli response was necessary, that we must not surrender to a provocation and to self-perpetuating blackmail. It's an unbearable moral dilemma, but the release of prisoners - as in the Jibril deal that will go down in infamy - is interpreted as capitulation to terror. There's a vast difference between releasing enemy prisoners every so often as a political gesture, and giving in to blackmail. Had we consented to Abu Mazen's requests before the Palestinian Authority elections, and freed prisoners, it would have been interpreted as a gesture of goodwill toward him, and maybe it would have had an effect on the outcome of the elections." In retrospect, does this war now seem to you to have been a failure? "Time will tell. Our forces have come under fire in every war. Screw-ups and shortages of supplies have always occurred. But if it turns out that the UN force really does separate us from them, and the Siniora government gains strength and becomes sovereign, and if Hezbollah's power is weakened - then this war will look different. But we're still beset by the feeling that there has been a weakening of the IDF's power as a deterrent force." During the war you were upset by the revelation of so much information in the media. "The press I was raised on was loyal to the point of concealing the truth. It was a media that didn't publish things, out of a sense of patriotic responsibility. The media today is immeasurably better. Today everything is revealed in a second. At the same time, during the war there were more than a few instances when military and state secrets were revealed. Secrets from the 'Holy of Holies' - the security cabinet - were leaked by its members even before the forum had convened. These are things that should not be done. "I'm not a historian," he adds. "But I've noticed something: In all the moving battles, we've won, while in all the wars of attrition we've been defeated. It's hard for us to withstand this type of battle. It's hard for us to develop the IDF's skills against guerilla warfare, or against mass demonstrations and against women who shout in the alleyways of poverty and despair, and against children who say - as happened to me when I was in Gaza during the first intifada - 'Soldier, kill me but don't beat me with a stick, I'm not a dog.' Since the Six-Day War, we've been beset by the difficult disagreement that derives from our ruling over another people. And this disagreement is a decisive part of our whole experience, to this day." If we don't act like idiots A big part of his national reckoning now has to do with Israel's Arab citizens. "This should be said, as the High Holy Days are upon us: We did not grant them true partnership. We maintained a intolerable discrepancy in living standards, in education, in human dignity. An Arab friend once said to me, 'Don't put us in Sayeret Matkal or in the reactor in Dimona - but do put us in Mekorot (the national water company). Do put us in Israel Electric. Give our youth a way out." He recalls something else that an Arab acquaintance from the Galilee once told him: "'When you Jews ought to be generous, you're stingy, and when you ought to be determined, you're irresolute.' How right he was. I always hoped that an Arab-Israeli identity would be formed. But I think that we didn't genuinely and courageously formulate the array of duties and privileges that derives from this identity. At the same time, many Israelis have a hard time taking in declarations like that of Sheikh Raed Saleh about an Islamic caliphate whose capital is Jerusalem, or the secular vision of MK Azmi Bishara of a pan-Arab Nasserism of which Israel is a part." To Gouri, the essential thing is the justness of the path. "If people want to attack me as a member of 'that' generation, and to tell me the State of Israel was born in sin, I refuse to accept that. I belong to the most persecuted and oppressed nation of all. Yes, injustices were committed in the course of the war. Yes, great destruction was visited upon our neighbor. Hebrew literature did not ignore horrible acts. But you cannot say our foundation lies in injustice and that we have no sovereign right to exist here. "The return to Zion is one of the most extraordinary and surprising historic phenomena that has ever occurred. Let another nation come and prove that it was more decent than we were toward its enemies. The majority of Israeli public opinion is still outraged by injustices, the media deals with it, the Supreme Court demands redress, the society judges. But to deny a nation its sovereign right because its neighbor doesn't accept it? Where in the world does any nation make its existence contingent upon its neighbors' agreement? Nations fight one another, and then comes a moment when they've emptied the last dregs of the cup of poison, when they've exhausted the bloodshed. There is no logical reason for this not to happen in this region, too, which is the cradle of civilizations. "I believe that we have the power to defend ourselves, as long as we're not idiots and don't fall asleep on the watch. And at the same time, we should strive for a compromise, for a brotherhood of nations. I know how important the recognition of the justness of the path is, because this process is a tortuous one. But it's impossible to live without faith in man's ability to rise above, in the brotherhood of nations and in a more just society." *****    Haim Gouri Haim Gouri was born in Tel Aviv in 1923. After World War II, he joined the elite Palmah unit and fought in Israel`s 1948 War of Independence. Later, he studied literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and French literature at the Sorbonne. He worked for many years as a journalist. Best known as a poet, Gouri has published over 20 books, among which 12 collections of poetry as well as a number of novels and several books of essays. His poetry covers a broad range of subjects, some intensely personal, others reflecting his experiences during World War II and the War of Independence. Gouri has received many literary awards, including the Ussishkin Prize (1961), the Sokolov Prize (1962), the Bialik Prize (1975), the Israel Prize for Poetry (1988) and the Uri Zvi Grinberg Prize (1998). His poetry has been published in 25 languages.  ***  Haim Gouri, veteran Israeli war poet, dies at 94 Prolific writer, journalist, and documentary filmmaker, the dean of Palmach-era Hebrew verse, gave a voice to Israel's pain and pride By RAOUL WOOTLIFF 31 January 2018, 9:47 am 0 102 shares Veteran Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Haim Gouri at his home in Jerusalem, July 6, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Haim Gouri, the veteran Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and filmmaker who over a 70-year career gave voice to some of the country’s most emblematic and tumultuous moments, died Wednesday at 94. Born in Tel Aviv in 1923, Gouri joined the pre-state Palmach paramilitary group in 1941, participating in a number of operations against British Mandate forces stations in then-Palestine and becoming one of the first recruits to complete the elite forces’ commanders course. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top storiesFREE SIGN UP As part of his service he was sent to Hungary in 1947 to assist Holocaust survivors emigrate to Mandate Palestine before serving as a deputy company commander in the Palmach’s Negev Brigade during the 1948 Independence War. Considered the dean of Palmach-era Hebrew verse, his first published book of verse, “Fire Flowers,” detailed his personal experiences during the war and gave voice to the duality of pain and pride felt by many of Israel’s first soldiers. One of the most iconic and anguished poems of that collection, “Here Lie Our Bodies,” was dedicated to the “Lamed Hey,” the convoy of 35 Hagana soldiers who were ambushed and killed during an attempt to resupply the kibbutzim of the Etzion Bloc in 1948, and helped immortalize the story in the annals of early Israeli history. Haim Gouri (left) in the Palmach in 1949. (Palmach Archive/Public Domain) He went on to write several other volumes of poetry spanning most of Israel’s early military conflicts and iconic events and made a name for himself as a successful documentary filmmaker and journalist. As a reporter, he wrote for the now defunct Lamerhav and Davar daily newspapers and gained prominence for his coverage of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann. Alan Mintz in the Jewish Review of Books, writing about Gouri’s 90th birthday celebrations, noted: “It’s hard to exaggerate the importance of poetry in 20th-century Israeli culture. The willful disengagement from Orthodox beliefs and practices that accompanied the Zionist revolution left the spiritual needs of secular Israelis unattended to, and the writing and reading of poetry have often become a kind of sacrament filling that void. Beginning in Eastern Europe and continuing in Palestine, Hebrew readers looked to poets not only to illuminate their private experience but also to serve as secular prophets.” Gouri, Mintz wrote, has the unofficial status of national poet, in particular because of his ability and willingness to “evince sympathy for the nation.” In 1988, Gouri won the prestigious Israel Prize for his poetry. And he never stopped writing, with his 2009 collection of poems, “Eyval” published at 86. He wasn’t known in America, but received some prominence in Europe, having spent a year at the Sorbonne after completing his studies at Hebrew University. Veteran Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Haim Gouri at his home in Jerusalem, in 1986. (Moshe Shai/Flash90) The only translation of his poetry in English is by Stanley F. Chyet, “Words in My Lovesick Blood: Poems by Haim Gouri.” In addition, some of poems were set to music, with perhaps his best-known being “Bab El Wad,” with lyrics by Gouri and melody by Shmuel Farshko. The song refers to the narrow 23-kilometer stretch of road to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, used for getting supplies to Jerusalem during the siege on the city. Bab El Wad, forever remember our names! Convoys broke through on the way to the city. By the side of the road lay our dead. The iron skeleton is silent like my comrade. And I walk, passing here in utter silence. I remember them, each and every one. Here we fought on cliffs and boulders, Here we were one family. Gouri was eulogized on Wednesday by politicians from across the political spectrum. Responding to the news of his death, Culture Minister Miri Regev described Gouri as “one of the great poets of the 1948 generation who heralded the revival of our people in our land.” “Gouri was and will always remain one of the ‘Fire Flowers’ of our national revival in the State of Israel,” she said, referring to the title of his 1949 work. Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein said that “Gouri’s life story is interwoven with the history of the state of Israel and his poems have been and will always remain a part of the Israeli ethos.” The Knesset speaker said he would name a garden in the Israeli parliament for Gouri. Gouri was survived by his wife, three daughters and six grandchildren. “When they asked Dad, ‘how are you?’ he would answer in two ways,” his daughter Hamutal told Army Radio on Wednesday morning. “‘I am as my nation is,’ or he would say, ‘the land of Israel hurts me.’ He was connected to this land with every aspect of his soul.”***Haim Gouri, Shaper of Israel's National Memory The tragedy of the great writer was his attempt, like many of ‘the 1948 generation,’ to straddle the fence, to be both moral and an occupier Haaretz Editorial Feb 01, 2018 2:00 AM   0comments    Zen Subscribe now   Shareshare on facebook   Tweet send via email reddit stumbleupon Haim Gouri.Emil Salman Haim Gouri, renowned Israeli writer and poet, dies at 94 Poem of the Week / Haim Gouri on memory and destruction The 52 words that foretold the future of Israel's occupation in 1967 The work of Haim Gouri, who died at 94 Wednesday, shaped Israel’s national memory to a great degree. It’s hard to imagine a memorial service for Israeli soldiers without the singing of “Shir Hare’ut” (“song of friendship”) or “Bab el Wad,” or the commemoration of the Holocaust without Gouri’s documentaries “The 81st Blow” and “The Last Sea.” Gouri was the last representative of the “1948 generation” of Hebrew literature, the cultural elder statesman whose biography reads like a summary of Israeli history: the son of Third Aliyah pioneers who helped found the Palmah and to bring Holocaust survivors from Europe and served as an officer in every Israeli war from the War of Independence to the Yom Kippur War. But Gouri was not just a poet, author, journalist and filmmaker; he was also a public figure who expressed opinions on the heart of the national dispute. His father was a founder of Labor Party forerunner Mapai and one of its leading activists during the Ben-Gurion era. For years he chaired the Knesset Finance Committee. The son, however, veered rightward, joining Ahdut Ha’avoda, which opposed dividing the land into Jewish and Arab states. After the Six-Day War, which achieved with the army’s weapons the Ahdut Ha’avoda vision of annexation, Gouri was one of the founders of the Movement for Greater Israel. The peak of his influence was in late 1974, when he mediated between the Gush Emunim settlers and the Rabin government, which allowed them to remain on the hilltop in Samaria where they established the illegal settlement of Sebastia. That was the start of the settlement enterprise of religious Zionism, aimed at precluding any partition agreement. Gouri lent it the legitimacy of the old guard, while at the same time opposing infringement of the human rights of the Palestinians in the territories. In recent years Gouri criticized the direction Israel took, particularly religious extremism, ultra-Orthodox separatism and rejection of the principles of equality expressed in the Declaration of Independence. His last appearance was in a successful campaign by Palmah veterans against the commemoration of Rehavam Ze’evi, the man of transfer and alleged rape, at the Sha’ar Hagai historic site. But even in his later disillusionment, and despite his recognition of the many injustices causes by the prolonged control of the territories, Gouri refused to view Israel as an occupying power, clinging to the saying, “The Jewish people is not an occupier in the Land of Israel.” Gouri’s tragedy, like those of many of his generation, was the effort to straddle the fence, to shoot while crying, to be both moral and an occupier. Gouri called it “the third way.” He belatedly realized that the settlers and right-wing governments were leading the state into moral disaster and undermining the democracy the founders established. But he didn’t succeed, or didn’t dare, to offer an alternative and to fight for it. The 1948 generation left that mission to its heirs. ***Home   >   Israel News Haim Gouri, Renowned Israeli Writer and Poet, Dies at 94 Haim Gouri was a prominent figure among Israel's founding generation. He received the country's highest honors for his work, including the Bialik Prize and the Israel Prize Ofer Aderet Jan 31, 2018 1:08 PM   0comments    Zen Subscribe now   Shareshare on facebook   Tweet send via email reddit stumbleupon Haim Gouri in 2009\ Daniel Tchetchik Poet and Palmach icon Haim Gouri turns down 'Zionist works of art' prize The 52 words that foretold the future of Israel's occupation in 1967 Haim Gouri, the renowned writer and journalist considered one of Israel's most important intellectual thinkers, died Wednesday at the age of 94. Gouri received several of Israel's highest accolades for his work as a writer and poet, including the Bialik Prize and the Israel Prize. >>'Bab el Wad': A newly published translation from the late, great Israeli poet Gouri was a prominent figure among Israel's founding generation, and his work is inextricably linked with much of the State of Israel's national ethos. He will be laid to rest on Thursday at 1:30 P.M. in the special section for those honored by the city of Jerusalem (Yakirei Yerushalyim) in the Har Hamenuchot cemetery. A number of his most famous poems became some of Israel’s most beloved songs, particularly those about the War of Independence in 1948 and the founding of Israel. He became well-known to the Israeli public for his journalistic coverage of the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961. He published 12 books of poetry and 10 works of fiction and nonfiction, as well as translations, journalism and documentary films. Haim Gouri in 2004.Alex Levac President Reuven Rivlin said both he and his wife mourned Gouri, the "nation’s contemporary poet." calling him “a man who became a symbol. The poet of independence, the poet of friendship, a warrior and intellectual.” Rivlin called Gouri a guide and a teacher of life, and a member of the generation that founded Israel. He added that Gouri became the founder of Israel’s greatest poetry and written works “through which he strengthened the moral and fundamental foundations of our existence here as a people, as a nation.” “We loved him greatly, his wisdom and his Israeliness,” said Rivlin. The president sent his condolences to Gouri’s widow Aliza, known as Alika, and his family. Haim Gouri and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.Mark Neyman / GPO Keep updated: Sign up to our newsletter Email* Sign up Gouri was born in 1923 in Tel Aviv in British Mandatory Palestine. His parents, Gila and Yisrael Gurfinkel, arrived to Israel on a ship from Odessa in 1919. He grew up in a non-religious, socialist Zionist home. His father was a labor leader and politician who served as member of the Knesset for Mapai from its beginning in 1949 until his death in 1965. “Even back in Russia, my parents spoke and wrote a wonderful Hebrew,” he told Haaretz in 2006. “They were vegetarians and naturalists, and they were pacifists. I attended the School for Workers’ Children, two years behind my eldest sister and Yitzhak Rabin, who were in the same class. We were raised on zealous Zionism and Hebrew Labor on the one hand, and on the Brotherhood of Nations - with the Arab worker - on the other.” Gouri went to the Kadoorie Agricultural High School; after graduating in 1941, he was one of the first to enlist in the Palmach, the elite pre-state strike force of the Haganah. He picked up the nickname “Jouri” in the Palmach. Later, as a platoon commander in the 1st Battalion, he participated in a large number of underground military operations against the British. These included bringing ashore illegal Jewish immigrants from the ship “Hannah Szenes,” the 1946 attack on the Stella Maris radar station in Haifa, and the same year, an operation called Night of the Bridges, in which the Palmach tried to blow up all the railway bridges connecting Palestine to its neighboring countries. At the same time, he called himself the “court poet” and wrote a number of well-known poems, many of which were later turned into popular songs.  In 1947, at age 23 and with experience with weapons, fieldcraft and explosives, he was sent by the Haganah to Europe to aid Holocaust survivors and prepare them for aliyah to Israel.  He later wrote that his work was to turn the “remnants of the survivors into an organized camp on its way to the Land of Israel.” He remained in Europe and the newly founded Israel Defense Forces sent him to Czechoslovakia, where he was a commander in the first paratroopers course for the IDF, which trained Jewish soldiers who served as paratroopers in the Allied armies during World War II, along with refugees from Hungary. “To take a Holocaust refugee and turn him into a paratrooper is a great thing. When I parachuted with the survivors I understood that this was why I was sent there, to reach this moment,” he said. When he returned to Israel he joined the Palmach’s Negev Brigade as a deputy battalion commander in the 7th Battalion. He participated in the capture of Be’er Sheva and was later the deputy commander of the forces that captured Eilat. During a temporary truce in the War of Independence, he went to Jerusalem, where he wrote two of his most famous poems, which helped make him one of Israel’s cultural legends. One was “Bab el-Wad,” in memory of the soldiers who fell in the Sha’ar Hagai area while fighting to keep open the road to blockaded Jerusalem; another was “Hareut” (Fellowship). Both songs were set to music and are still performed today, especially as part of ceremonies and commemorations. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had said “Hareut” was one of his favorite songs, and it became a symbol identified with his assassination. “People don’t realize how many were killed in the war. We lost one percent of the population in the War of Independence, 6,000 people, the vanguard, the finest of the finest,” said Gouri. Until his dying day, Gouri said he felt the War of Independence was still going on. “All the wars are the result of 1948. All the time, we are in a state of war. It has created an entire culture here.” After the war he moved to Jerusalem and began studying Hebrew literature, philosophy and French culture at the Hebrew University. His first volume of poems, “Flowers of Fire, Years of Fire,” appeared a year after the war, in 1949. Then came “Till Dawn,” a book of poetry and a diary of the war. In addition to his poems and novels, he also translated plays, poems and stories. He won the Sokolov Award for journalism in 1962 for his coverage of the Eichmann trial, the Israel Prize for Hebrew Poetry in 1988, the Bialik Prize for literature and the Newman Hebrew Literature Prize in 1994.    Alongside his literary works, Gouri worked as a journalist, first for the Lamerhav, where he covered the Eichmann trial from its first day to the last. His articles from the trial were collected in a book entitled, “Facing the Glass Booth: The Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann.” “I came out of the trial broken psychologically,” he said. Later he wrote for Davar until his retirement at age 65. He also published articles in Haaretz. In 1972, he was invited by members of Kibbutz Lohamei Hageta’ot to create a film for the kibbutz’s Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum of the Holocaust and Jewish resistance. He teamed up with editor Jacques Ehrlich and director David Bergman to produce a trilogy of films over 13 years. The first, “The 81st Blow,” was released in 1974 and was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary Film category. This was followed by “The Last Sea” and “Flames in the Ashes.” Gouri also fought in the Six-Day War as a company commander in the battle for Jerusalem and in the Yom Kippur War as an officer in an armored formation in the Sinai. He described the Six-Day War as one that “united the land and divided the people.” In 1967, he was active in the establishment of the Movement for Greater Israel. A month after the war, he was one of the signatories on the movement’s founding statement, alongside Natan Alterman. However, in the years following the Six-Day War, he saw the wrongs of the occupation and gradually parted with this vision. “Everything changed and the day arrived for religious zealotry and settlement everywhere. This is something I can’t fathom. I believe that some of those who signed that petition would not have signed such a thing today,” Gouri told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War. In 1995, he was one of the founders of The Third Way, which opposed a withdrawal from the Golan Heights. He eventually abandoned that platform as well. In his later years, Gouri took part in struggles against administrative detentions, home demolitions and expulsions. In 1975, when members of the right-wing Gush Emunim movement refused to vacate the old train station they had taken over in Sebastia in the West Bank, Gouri brokered the agreement between them and then-Defense Minister Shimon Peres. After the negotiations, 30 families were allowed to settle in a nearby Kadum military base, giving birth to the settlements of Elon Moreh and Kedumim. In his 2004 book, “I’m a Civil War,” Gouri explained that he was born to live between contradictions and to make his way between the schisms. “If people want to attack me as a member of ‘that’ generation, and tell me the State of Israel was born in sin, I refuse to accept that. I belong to the most persecuted and oppressed nation of all. Yes, injustices were committed in the course of the war. Yes, great destruction was visited upon our neighbor. Hebrew literature did not ignore horrible acts. But you cannot say our foundation lies in injustice and that we have no sovereign right to exist here,” he told Haaretz. In January 2016, Gouri declined the Culture and Sports Ministry’s prize for Zionist works of art in literature. He had won the award for his most recent book of poetry, “Though I Wished for More of More,” which was published in Hebrew in September 2015. In a letter he sent to the judges on the prize committee, Gouri explained he did not think his latest work was appropriate for the 50,000-shekel ($12,800) prize, and recommended awarding it to a young writer. “I told them immediately that I would not accept the prize,” he said. “I will not say what my opinion of the prize for Zionist art is. I was born a Zionist and will die a Zionist, and all my life I fought for Zionism – but I do not find a connection between this book and prize,” he said. “The book was a clearly personal work of a man in his last years taking an accounting of his life and memories,” Gouri added. Gouri continued to write well into his 90s. In his last years he wrote about how very worried he was with the changes that had been occurring in Israel, and spent quite a bit of time contemplating the country’s future.  In an article he wrote in Haaretz after his 90th birthday, Gouri wrote: “Now, in my waning years, I often ponder the problem of our national identity in the land of Israel, in the State of Israel.” “Years have gone by and our country continues to bleed from all the wars we have had since then – a continuation of 1948-9. The nation is split and completely divided over the main issues of the malignant conflict between the peoples of this land, and over the question of how to put an end to it. Without an agreement, in the foreseeable future the descendants of Isaac and Ishmael, two brothers, will continue to weep.”  Gouri lived in Jerusalem since 1952. He and his wife Alika had three daughters and a number of grandchildren. He left his archives to the National Library of Israel. Netayahu said he enormous respect for those who paved the way for Israel’s independence. “They fought and gave their lives for the rebirth of Israel, a few against the many, and Gouri himself combined in an exceptional fashion the fighter and the man of letters.” Netanyahu said everyone knows his songs and can sing along with them, “so touching they make you cry, for example ‘Hareut’ and ‘Bab al-Wad.’ Even as a child I listened to these songs innumerable times and they always touched my heart.”   The prime minister added that Gouri’s poems were a foundation of the new Jewish poetry, and are part of the soundtrack of the State of Israel. Netanyahu said he met Gouri for the first time only a short time after his own brother, Yonatan Netanyahu, died during a rescue operation in Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976. “He told me very touching things, and since then we have met from time to time, and in recent years I met with Palmach veterans, and Gouri among them, in my office. It was a true closing of a circle, from Bab al-Wad and Sha’ar Hagai. We talked about the issue of the proper commemoration of those who broke through on the road and accompanied the convoys to Jerusalem there at Sha’ar Hagai during the War of Independence.” Netanyahu described how other veterans of the war spoke, and how then Gouri recited a poem by Natan Alterman from memory. “He lived those days, days of lead and blood, days in which his friends fell on all sides. He spoke from the soul, from the heart, and when he finished it was silent, and I told him: ‘The discussion is over, I made a decision – The commemoration will be the way you want, as is proper,’” said Netanyahu. “I will never forget that moment for all my life,” said Netanyahu. “Haim Gouri’s works will continue to be with us forever. May his memory be a blessing.” *** The Palmach (Hebrew: פלמ"ח‬, acronym for Plugot Maḥatz (Hebrew: פלוגות מחץ‬), lit. "strike forces") was the elite fighting force of the Haganah, the underground army of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of the British Mandate for Palestine. The Palmach was established on 15 May 1941. By the outbreak of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War it consisted of over 2,000 men and women in three fighting brigades and auxiliary aerial, naval and intelligence units. With the creation of Israel's army, the three Palmach Brigades were disbanded. This and political reasons compelled many of the senior Palmach officers to resign in 1950.[1] The Palmach contributed significantly to Israeli culture and ethos, well beyond its military contribution. Its members formed the backbone of the Israel Defense Forces high command for many years, and were prominent in Israeli politics, literature and culture. EBAY4279
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