Haim Be'er

Haim Be'er, born in 1945, is an Israeli novelist.

Haim Be'er was born in Jerusalem to an Orthodox Jewish family. The family name was Rachlevsky. He grew up in the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem, and attended Ma'aleh, a state religious high school. In 1963–1965 he served in the Israel Defense Forces in the army rabbinate, writing for the army newspaper "Mahanayim." Concurrently he worked nights as a copy editor at the newspaper daily Davar.

In 1966, he began working at the Am Oved publishing house, first as a copyeditor and later as an editor and member of the editorial board. All his books have been published by Am Oved. For ten years, he wrote a weekly column called "Memoirs of a Bookworm" ("Mi-zikhronoteha shel tolaat sefarim").

Be'er has won many literary prizes, among them the Bernstein Prize, the Bialik Prize (2002), and the Prime Minister's Prize. He teaches Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

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, Relationships", biography, 1993)
*"The Pure Element of Time" (in English translation, 2003), originally "Havalim" (1998)
*"Lifnei Hamakom" ("Upon a Certain Place") (2007)

References

*Some material for this article comes from the article " [http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/חיים_באר חיים באר] " (Haim Be`er) in the Hebrew-language Wikipedia. Retrieved November 23, 2005.
*" [http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=44 Haim Be`er] " at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature. Retrieved November 23, 2005.
*Analysis of Be'er's literary style, Arnold Band - http://www.ithl.org.il/interview1.html