Creator Bio
Avner Treinin
1928–2011
Poet, fiction writer, and professor of chemistry at the Hebrew University, Avner Treinin was born in Tel Aviv and raised in Jerusalem. He fought in the 1948 War. He was awarded the Brenner Prize in 1986, and the Bialik Prize in 1989.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Limestone
If it forms the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones,
Are constantly homesick for, this is chiefly
Because it dissolves in water.
—Auden, “In Praise of Limestone”
If beauty and truth were to…