Remembered and Forgotten

Natan Zach

1988

He turned walking on water into a kind of art. Rarely

getting himself wet. He left the ancient harbor at different hours of the day. At times

before sunrise. Sometimes he’d return minutes later. Sometimes

only when the sunset’s flames reddened the hilltops in the east or

when the blaze in the west was reduced to cinders, then darkness. No one

unde…

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Natan Zach

1936–2020

Natan Zach (born Harry Seitelbach) was a poet, writer, editor, translator, and literary scholar. As a child, he moved to Palestine from Germany, settling in Haifa. Zach enlisted in the Israeli army at the age of seventeen and fought in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. Zach was a leading figure in the Israeli literary scene in the first decades of the country’s independence and had a profound impact on Israeli poetry. His Kol he-ḥalav ve-ha-devash (All the Milk and Honey, 1966) is considered a modern classic. He also wrote children’s books and nonfiction. Zach was awarded the Israel Prize in 1995.

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