Tuvya Ruebner
Tuvya Ruebner, also Rübner was an Israeli poet, editor, translator and photographer.Biography
Ruebner was born Kurt Rübner in 1924 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia to a German-speaking Jewish family. In 1941, he emigrated to Mandate Palestine without his family, and joined a kibbutz. His parents, sisters and grandparents were sent to Poland and were murdered in the Holocaust.
Following the 1947–1949 Palestine war, he became a member of kibbutz Merhavia. For many years he was a schoolteacher and later lectured on literature at Haifa University.
His poetry blends classical and modern Hebrew, creating a unique idiom.Awards
In 2008, Ruebner was awarded the Israel Prize, for Hebrew poetry.
