Haim Be`er

Haim Be`er (born 1945) is an Israeli author.

He was born in Jerusalem to a Haredi family. In 1963–1965 he served in the Israel Defense Forces in the army rabbinate, on the board of the literary journal Campers (mehanaim). Concurrently he worked nights as a copy editor at the newspaper Davar.

In 1966 he began working at the Am Oved publishing house, first as a copy editor and later as an editor and editorial board member. His books have been published by that company. For 10 years he wrote a weekly column "Memoirs of a Bookworm" (mi-zikhronoteha shel tolaat sefarim).

He has won various literary prizes, among them the Bernstein Prize, the Bialik Prize (2002), and the Prime Minister's Prize.

Books

Sha`ashu`ei Yom Yom (Day to Day Delights, poems, 1970)
Feathers (in English translation, 2004), originally Notzot (1979)
Et ha-Zamir (The Time of Trimming, 1987)
Gam Ahavatam Gam Sinatam - Bialik, Brenner, Agnon Ma`arakhot Yahasim (Their Love and Their Hate: Bialik, Brenner, Agnon, Systems of Relations, biography, 1993)
The Pure Element of Time (in English translation, 2003), originally Havalim (1998)

References

*Much of the content of this article comes from the article "חיים באר" (Haim Be`er) in the Hebrew-language Wikipedia. Retrieved November 23, 2005.
*"Haim Be`er" at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature. Retrieved November 23, 2005.