Yaakov ahimeir biography of williams

Peering at an early influential figure through a new lens

By YISRAEL MEDAD

Israel’s cultural political theater of operations can almost be divided into two main periods.

The first, dominated by the hegemony of Mapai, its publishing house Am Oved, the newspapers Davar, Al HaMishmar of the Marxist Mapam with its own publishing house, Sifriat Hapoalim and the “Palmach generation” literati lasted until 1977 and ever since has been, relatively successfully, fighting a battle of survival.

After Menachem Begin’s electoral victory that year, an almost unknown slew of heroes of themes and poetry gained ground, especially the campaigns of the Irgun and Lechi undergrounds.I write “almost” because in 1971, Galila Ron-Feder-Amit published her first children’s novel, followed by her “Anonymous Children” series on the backdrop of the pre-state undergrounds and many others, which de