Simon Halkin

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Simon Halkin, Israeli poet, was born in Belarus in 1899. He lived and studied in the USA from 1914 to 1932. He worked as a teacher in Tel Aviv from 1932 to 1939, but then returned to America. He made his final move to Israel in 1949, when he succeeded Joseph Klausner as Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He translated William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and other writers from English into Hebrew. He died in 1987. His most famous book of poetry is On the Island (1946).

See The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself (2003), ISBN 0-8143-2485-1.