Shulamith Hareven

Background

Shulamith Hareven was born on February 14, 1930 in Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, in the family of Abraham and Natalie (Wiener) Ryftin. In 1940 she immigrated to Israel.

Education

Shulamith attended Hebrew University.

Career

At the age of seventeen she joined the Haganah, serving as a combat medic in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, in the siege of Jerusalem. She was assigned to establish Israel Defense Forces Radio, opening the station's broadcasts in 1950. She was a war correspondent in the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War.

In 1962 she published her first book, a book of poems titled "Predatory Jerusalem." Since then she wrote prose books, translations of books, and plays. She published essays and articles about Israeli society and culture in literary journals Masa, Orlogin, and Keshet, and in newspapers Al Ha-Mishmar, Maariv, and Yedioth Ahronoth. Her essays are collected in four volumes. She also published a thriller under the pen name "Tal Yaeri". Her books have been translated into 21 languages.

Achievements

• Shulamith was the first woman inducted into the Academy of the Hebrew Language. In 1995 the French weekly L'Express deemed her an Author of Peace and listed her among the 100 women "who move the world."

Works

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  • Thirst: The Desert Trilogy 1996
  • The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East 1995
  • The Miracle Hater 1988
  • City of Many Days (English and Hebrew Edition) 1977
  • Twilight and Other Stories 1991
  • Solitudes (French Edition) 1991
  • Sete ovvero trilogia del deserto. 1998
  • La ville aux jours nombreux 1998
  • Prophet. Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin. 1990
  • Prophet: A Novel 1990
  • Mashiaḥ o Keneset: Masot u-maʼamarim (Hebrew Edition) 1987

Views

Quotations: "I have always thought that culture begins where they know how to separate personal matters from public matters."

Membership

• Academy of Hebrew Language

Connections

In 1953 Shulamith married Alouph Eliahu Hareven, with whom she had two children: Ithai and Gail Hareven.

Father:

Abraham Ryftin

Mother:

Natalie (Wiener) Ryftin

Spouse:

Alouph Eliahu Hareven

Daughter:

Gail Hareven

Son:

Ithai Hareven