Creator Bio
Azriel Okhmani
1907–1978
Born in Poland, Azriel Okhmani (also spelled Ukhmani) studied agronomy in France before immigrating to Palestine in 1932. Besides his agricultural efforts, Okhmani was a prolific literary critic and helped to found and edit several early Israeli newspapers and literary journals, including Al ha-Mishmar and Ittim. Okhmani was also a committed member of the left-wing political party Mapam, and in the late 1940s, he served as a counselor at the Israeli embassy in Warsaw.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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A Generation in the Land
Plans for the anthology of fiction and poetry now presented to the Hebrew reader arose in our minds several years ago, but particularly the tenth anniversary of the State of Israel was found to be…