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Born
in Kovno, Lithuania, Lea Goldberg studied at Lithuanian and German universities,
receiving her Ph.D. in 1933. She made aliyah in 1935 where she
worked as a literary adviser to Habimah theater and as an editor for Sifriyat
Poalim books. She became a lecturer in literature at the Hebrew University
in 1954.
Her poems are known for their melancholy subjects with positive messages.
Her themes include wounded love as well as a yearning for love and light.
Her work is marked by an aesthetic intellectualism bordering on modernism.
In addition to her poems, she wrote poems for children, a novel, a play
and was responsible for translating a number of Russian and French masters
into Hebrew.
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