265:. Ruebner, he writes, applies “the interdisciplinary theory of 'word and image', as two “sister arts”. Fellow poet and literature Professor Rafi Weichert writes that Ruebner's poetry deals with the experience of living with contradictions: “The whole volume of Ruebner’s creation ... is his way of “keeping his balance upon the abyss, the abyss of his biography.” In the Introduction to her 2014 translations of Ruebner's poems Poet and Professor of Literature Rachel Tsvia Back goes into some details. She guides readers to a number of aspects that she considers characteristic of Ruebner's writing. Lisa Katz and Shahar Bram's introduction to their translations includes examples of cultural influences that affected Ruebner's writing. In the Introduction to her later publication of Ruebner's poems, which she translated to English too, Rachel Tsvia Back offers an overview of Ruebner's long literary life. Having worked with him on the translation of those poems until a few months before his death, her account ends thus: "In the tradition of the Psalms, Ruebner's late poems marvel at the breadth given, at the day offered, and at the wonder of a word speaking from the page".
192:, which had become a puppet state of Nazi Germany, banished Jewish pupils from schools. Consequently, Ruebner left school at the age of 15, thus - ending his formal education in the ninth grade. Acquiring coveted permission papers, Ruebner was able to leave Slovakia in 1941. Together with a group of youth, he made his way to Palestine, leaving his parents and sister behind. He was settled in Kibbutz Merchavia in northern Israel, where he lived for the rest of his life. His parents, his sister and other relatives were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1942.
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Ruebner's involvement in translating poetry from Hebrew to German as well as from German to Hebrew was considerable. Distinguished among these were his translations from Hebrew to German of stories by the eventual Nobel Prize winner J.S. Agnon. The Jury awarding
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Ruebner as "among the most important Hebrew poets", and his poetry as "restrained, polished and intellectual ... nourished by the ancient strata of Hebrew poetry and the best of the tradition
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Ruebner's Hebrew poems into English appeared in various literary forums from as early as 1974. However, full-fledged poetry books of such translations are a far more recent development. Rachel Tsvia Back's 2014 volume (see below) is the most extensive, but all three books
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Ruebner began writing poetry as an adolescent. He continued to write in his native German language during his early years in the kibbutz. While there, he was introduced to learned people such as Werner Kraft and Ludwig
Strauss; who helped him a great deal. He was also introduced to the Israeli poet
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Switzerland where Ruebner served as Secretary General of the Swiss branch of the Jewish Agency. On his return in1966, Ruebner began teaching - first at Oranim College, and later at Tel Aviv University as well as at Haifa University. In 1974 he was appointed
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and other poets into German. In addition, he engaged in editorial work - editing, among others, the poetry collections of Leah
Goldberg. The Israel Prize Official Website lists all Ruebner's contributions up to 2008. Indeed, even later on and up until the very last months of his long life Ruebner
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Ruebner's poetry deals with loss: the loss of his family in the Holocaust and the subsequent deaths of his first wife and, later, the disappearance of his son. Poet and Professor Rachel Tzvia Back, Ruebner's English-language translator, notes that Ruebner's poetry of "textual rupture and
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In 1944 Ruebner married Ada Klein, also from
Slovakia, with whom he had a daughter. In 1950, Ada was killed in a traffic accident, which also left Ruebner severely injured. Unable to be involved in agricultural labour, Ruebner was appointed librarian of the kibbutz. Sometime later he met the
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Ruebner’s poetry as enthralling, continuously renewing itself – its contents and its form, poetry that, by sustaining conversions and upheavals, attests to its strength and its enduring dynamism.”
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Ruebner was already writing poems in his mother tongue (German) when he arrived in Palestine in 1941. Although the poems in German were written first, they were published later than the ones written in Hebrew. The following is a selection of his poetry books in German:
167:, and he also translated poems - from Hebrew into German and from German into Hebrew. In addition, he was the editor of numerous literary books, a scholar, a teacher, and a photographer. Ruebner was Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Literature at
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fragmentation" reflects the extreme rupture and fragmentation of his life. She explains that his "insistence on indeterminacy" in his writing, “reflects the indeterminacy of a new life built in the shadows of the old .”
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by the influential Avraham Shlonsky. Goldberg encouraged him to write in Hebrew and became a mentor and a close friend. Indeed, she was instrumental in publishing his first Hebrew poem, which appeared in the
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2008 noted that: ”His translations from German broadened the horizons of the Israeli reader, and his translations to German- especially of the writing of SJ Agnon – promoted Israeli literature in the world.”
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Israel-born pianist Galila Yisraeli and they married in 1953. The couple had two sons. In 1983, their youngest son, Moran, disappeared on a trip to Ecuador. All attempts to find him thus far have failed.
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