Found in Translation

The American-born Robert Friend, who died in Jerusalem in 1998, was a distinguished poet and translator from the Hebrew. Found in Translation: One Hundred Years of Modern Hebrew Poetry is a collection of his English-language versions of twenty Hebrew poets: Haim Nachman Bialik, David Vogel, Leah Goldberg, Yehuda Amichai, Natan Alterman, Gabriel Preil, Yaakov Fichman, Yaakov Steinberg, Rachel, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Esther Raab, Yocheved Bat-Miriam, Hayim Lenski, Zelda, Dan Pagis, Natan Zach, David Avidan, Dalia Ravikovitch, Dalia Herz and Zali Gurevitch. The volume is edited by the poet and translator Gabriel Levin. It is a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.