Learning about Lea

Lea Goldberg, who died in 1970 at the age of 59, is perhaps the best known, most widely read Hebrew female poet of her generation. Amia Lieblich takes us on a dual journey; she delves deep into Goldberg's personality and motivation, and in the course of doing so, as she becomes closer to her subject, she herself embarks upon something of a voyage of personal and intellectual rediscovery. This is an absolutely absorbing study of a poet, children's author, academic and artist of seminal importance in the literary world of Palestine (as it was before 1948) and Israel, and a fascinating account of the development of a work of both scholarship and humanity.