Hannah Bat Shahar | |
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חנה בת שחר | |
| Born | 1944 Jerusalem, Israel |
| Nationality |  Israel |
| Occupation(s) | Author, poet |
Hannah Bat Shahar (Hebrew:חנה בת שחר) is thepen name of the Israeli writer Hannah Eichenstein.[1]
Bat Shahar was born inJerusalem, 1944.
She received the 1994Prime Minister's Prize.[2]
Bat Shahar, was born in 1944 in Jerusalem, daughter of Rabbi Bezalel Jolti. Married to Rabbi Yehoshua Eichenstein, head of the Yad Aharon yeshiva.[3] She graduated from theBeit Ya'akov institutions, whose curriculum does not includemodern Hebrew literature. In the 1980s, she enrolled in a writing workshop led byYoram Kaniuk andAharon Appelfeld. In 1995-2000 she studied literature in theHebrew University and received an M.A. cum laude in 2000.[4] She later began writing under a pseudonym, because she feared that her identification would lead to ostracism inultra-orthodox society and harm his children's marriages.[5]
Regarding her literary writing under her pseudonym, she said in an interview: "I feel like a walking mask. This wig is a mask, these bourgeois clothes are a costume, and I hide behind a pseudonym. Even I don't always know who I am." Nevertheless, she said that from a religious point of view, she has "no heretical thoughts. I believe with all my heart."
She also said in another interview: "I won't ask a rabbi whether I'm allowed or not to publish my book, because asking is not kosher. So I'm not allowed to ask and I'm also afraid to ask. Because it's clear to me that the rabbis would tell me that it's forbidden, and what would I do then? I would either have to go against them or simply stop writing and die."[6]
In 1985, her first book, "The Tales of the Cup", including six short stories, was published and won theNewman Prize [he] for Debut Books.[7] Her next two books, "Calling the Bats" (1990) and "The Butterfly Dance" (1993) were published in the "Kav Hatefer" series edited by Yigal Schwartz at Keter Publishing.[8]
In her early books, little emphasis was placed on the religious background, but later the subject took on a prominent significance. Bat Shahar deals with topics considered taboo in Haredi society.
She said that her writing is influenced by the revered father figure and the distant mother figure.
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