Haim Gouri Author

Haim Gouri was born in Tel Aviv in 1923 and in 1941 joined the Palmach, the elite commando units of the Haganah, the forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces. An award-winning poet, journalist, and novelist, as well as a documentary filmmaker, Gouri has devoted much of his career to exploring political and cultural shifts in his country. Alan Mintz is editor of the journal Prooftexts and is a professor in the Department of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.