Shirley Kaufman

Shirley Kaufman (born June 5, 1923 Seattle) is an American-Israeli poet and translator.[1]

Life

Her parents immigrated from Poland. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in 1940. She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 1944, and in 1946 she married Dr. Bernard Kaufman, Jr. They had three daughters: Sharon (b. 1948), Joan (b. 1950) and Deborah (b. 1955). She studied at San Francisco State University, with Jack Gilbert.

She married Hillel Matthew Daleski and immigrated to Jerusalem, Israel in 1973.

Her daughter Deborah made a short film about her poem "Ezekiel's Wheels".[2]

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares,[3] Harper's,[4] American Poetry Review,[5] and The New Yorker.[6]

Awards

Works

Poetry

Translations

Anthologies

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