Yitzhak Orpaz
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Yitzhak Orpaz | |
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| Born | October 15, 1921 Zinkiv, Ukraine |
| Died | (aged 93) |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Children | 4 |
Yitshak Orpaz (Hebrew: יצחק אוורבוך אורפז; 15 October 1921 – 14 August 2015) was an Israeli writer.[1]
Biography
[edit]Yitzhak Orpaz was born in Zinkiv, Ukraine, at the time USSR. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine at the age of 17. He enlisted in the British Army during the Second World War and served in the Jewish Brigade. He served in the Israel Defense Forces during the 1947–1949 Palestine war. After the war he served in the regular army. He studied philosophy and Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University.
His first book Wild Grass was published in 1959.
As part of his process of "returning to the roots", Orpaz re-adopted the original surname of Averbuch, previously abandoned by his family for the sake of "Israeliness".[2]
Awards
[edit]- Bialik Prize (1986)
- In 2005, Orpaz was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ איזיקוביץ, גילי (15 August 2015). מת הסופר יצחק אוורבוך־אורפז. Haaretz (in Hebrew).
- ^ "The Hebraization of Surnames". Jewish Agency for Israel. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
- ^ "Israel Prize Judges' Rationale for the Award" (in Hebrew). Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on 21 October 2010.
External links
[edit]- Yitzhak Orpaz Archived 23 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine bibliography at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature.
- Israel Prize Official Site - CV of Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach (in Hebrew)
Categories:
- 1923 births
- 2015 deaths
- Jews from Mandatory Palestine
- Soviet Jews
- Jewish Israeli writers
- Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Israeli military personnel of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
- Israel Prize in literature recipients
- Tel Aviv University alumni
- Israeli novelists
- International Writing Program alumni
- Jewish Brigade personnel
- Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
- People from Khmelnytskyi Oblast
- Bialik Prize recipients