Tirtsa Atar was a poet, playwright, actor, and translator. The daughter of poet Natan Alterman and actress Rachel Marcus, Atar was born in Tel Aviv. She wrote five books of poetry, plays, and works for children, and also acted on the Israeli stage and translated dozens of plays into Hebrew, including Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1976). In 1973, Atar was awarded the Zeev Award for children’s and young adults’ literature.
The Liberation of Jerusalem, created shortly after the Six Day War, was a bold statement by its artist Solomon (Shlomo) Dreizner, at a time when any expression of support for Israel by Soviet Jews…
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