GILEAD, ZERUBAVEL

GILEAD, ZERUBAVEL (1912–1988), Hebrew poet, writer, and editor. Born in Bendery, Bessarabia, his family immigrated to Palestine in 1922 and settled in the newly founded kibbutz *En-Harod, where he grew up. He was active in the Ha-No'ar ha-Oved and He-?alutz youth movements, served as an emissary of the latter in Poland, and was information officer of the *Palma? and a member of its general staff during Israel's War of Independence. His poems, stories, and articles appeared in numerous journals and newspapers from 1929. His works include Ne'urim (poems, 1936), Marot Gilbo'a (sketches, 1943), Aggadot Yaldut (poems, 1947), Si?ah al ha-?of (stories, 1954), Nahar Yarok (poems, 1956), Si?ah she-Lo Tammah (essays, 1965), Yam shel Ma'alah (poems, 1967), Ha-Kikhli (poems, 1978), Or ha-Har (poems, 1986), and Be-?el ha-Te'enah (poems, 1988). From 1956, he was one of the editors of Mi-Bifenim, a periodical of Ha-Kibbutz ha-Me'u?ad, and was an editor of the Kibbutz ha-Me'u?ad publishing house. An English translation of his selected poems appeared in 1983. For further English translations, see Goell, Bibliography, index.

bibliography:

G. Yardeni, Si?ot im Soferim (1961), 133–42; D. Sadan, Avenei Bo?an (1951), 140–5; Sadan, in: Bein Din le-?eshbon (1963), 115–23; Y. Keshet, Maskiyyot (1953), 273–81. add. bibliography: U. Shavit, "El mul Shorshei ha-Na?al," in: Moznayim, 44 (1977), 309–12; Y. Zemora, "Einav A?uvot gam ke-she-Me?al?el Kolo," in: Moznayim, 47:6 (1979), 419–21; M. Ben Shaul, in: Maariv (Aug. 22, 1980); U. Shavit, in: Davar (Aug. 22, 1980); A. Brakai, in: Al ha-Mishmar (Nov. 11, 1980).

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