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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 589

Leah Goldberg

Musician Asaf Roth, left, artistic director Anat Safran, middle and director Zvi Sahar of the Gnazim Itim Ensemble performance project produced in Tel Aviv's Beit Ariela public library and premiered December 28, 2020 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
January 3, 2021, 2:35 pm
Letters from literary lights inspire artists in underground library show
Basement stacks of Tel Aviv’s Beit Ariela become online performance space for musicians, actors and dancers responding to authors’ letters
By Jessica Steinberg
Both sides of a commemorative 10 euro coin celebrating the 300th birthday of the Vilna Gaon in Lithuania. (Courtesy of the Bank of Lithuania/ via JTA)
October 24, 2020, 10:51 pm
Lithuania mints first-ever EU coin with Hebrew letters, honoring Vilnius scholar
Bank of Lithuania unveils coin celebrating 300th anniversary of birth of Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, the ‘Vilna Gaon,’ who spent his life in Lithuanian capital of Vilnius
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The original, 1959 illustrations of 'A Flat for Rent," by Shoshana Heiman feature only two colors (Courtesy Kedem Auctions)
November 23, 2017, 1:40 pm
Leah Goldberg’s tale of tolerance for kids gains new English translation
The Hebrew classic, now called ‘Room for Rent,’ brings message of acceptance to new readers
By Jessica Steinberg
President Reuven Rivlin looks at the new NIS 20 and NIS 100 bills at a ceremony in his residence in Jerusalem on November 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 22, 2017, 11:08 pm
Rivlin hails equality as bank notes honoring women enter circulation
New NIS 20 and NIS 100 bills featuring female poets Leah Goldberg and Rachel Bluwstein presented to president
By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff
Hebrew poets Rachel (left) and Leah Goldberg (right) on new NIS 20 and 100 banknotes. (Courtesy of the Bank of Israel)
November 16, 2017, 8:24 pm
New bills to feature famous Israeli women poets
Leah Goldberg and Rachel Bluwstein, both Ashkenazi, to grace NIS 20 and NIS 100 notes, despite PM’s pledge to celebrate Sephardic Jews on bills
By Sue Surkes
Hebrew poets Rachel (left) and Leah Goldberg (right) on new NIS 20 and 100 banknotes. (Courtesy of the Bank of Israel)
February 1, 2017, 2:26 pm
Bank of Israel unveils new banknotes featuring women
NIS 20 and NIS 100 bills, to enter circulation by year’s end, have images of Hebrew-language poets Rachel Bluwstein and Leah Goldberg
By ToI Staff
Annie Kantar
May 29, 2015, 12:40 am
Annie Kantar
Leah Goldberg, the translator
In helping birth modern Hebrew culture, she rejected purism and shaped a nation that might welcome strangeness
Leah Goldberg, pictured here in 1946, was a prolific writer and poet whose poetry was put to music only after she died (Courtesy The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images from the Central Zionist Archives)
March 25, 2015, 5:48 am
The renewed sounds of Leah Goldberg
A national project hopes to preserve the Israeli soundbook
By Jessica Steinberg
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