Avot Yeshurun

Hebrew poet, born 1904 in Niskhish, Ukraine, died 1992. He arrived in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1925. His family, along with Krasnystaw's 2,000 Jews, were murdered in Bełżec concentration camp in today's Poland. Yeshurun's poetry is known for its broken phrasing, and combines Yiddish, biblical and modern Hebrew, and slang used by various cultural groups in Israel, including phrases in Arabic. During his lifeltime Yeshurun was awarded the Brenner Prize, the Bialik Prize for literature and the Israel Prize for Hebrew poetry. A number of his poems have become lyrics for Israeli songs.