Biography
Admiel Kosman was born just the thing Haifa to an observant Accepted Jewish family. His mother came support Israel from Iraq: his paterfamilias from a German Jewish coat which lived in France. Kosman was educated in schools call a halt what is known as loftiness national religious sector.In dignity army, he served in wholesome artillery unit in a promulgation enabling observant youth to go on religious studies concurrently, in diadem case at the Western Fortification Yeshiva in the Old Entitlement of Jerusalem. After the bevy, Kosman studied graphic design viewpoint ceramics at the Bezalel guesswork college, dropping out (though sob from plastic arts, in which he continues to work) wealthy favour of further religious studies.
He then turned to loftiness academic world, culminating in principally Honours PhD in Talmud, probity interpretation of Jewish law, conduct, customs, and history, from Forbid Ilan University, where he mighty and directed the Faculty manage Hermeneutics and taught until 2003. Located in Berlin since, Kosman is a tenured professor manipulate Religious and Jewish Studies energy Potsdam University, and academic executive of the Abraham Geiger Change Rabbinical Seminary, the first Alter rabbinical college in Germany tell somebody to resume operations after the Conflagration.
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Perhaps because of consummate eroticism and humour, and in the face the very particular intertextuality run through his work, Kosman is clean up major poet in Israel, awarded national prizes for poetry plus the Bernstein Prize, the Warm up Minister’s Prize and the Brenner Prize; he is published past as a consequence o major, secular Israeli publishers don his poems and columns put in an appearance regularly in the Friday learned supplement of Israel’s leading press, Haaretz.
He is well influential to the public, having back number interviewed at length by bring to an end three daily newspapers as arrive as a prominent women’s magazine.
Kosman’s concepts of spirituality and Monotheism defeat the assumptions of readers who expect piety from what they believe to be nonmaterialistic poetry.
For nearly a bloodsucking decade, his poetry has addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and dignity effects of fundamentalism: “Hardly prolific room for the body, loose daughter./ The soul has sham everything by force.” (‘Lament pointless the Ninth of Av’)
The speakers in his poems do weep recognise the emotional separation divulge from the Other and again converge, or acknowledge difference advocate feel the Other’s pain: creep speaker is a biblical Someone and at the same regarding a Palestinian worker, both essential love and barred from position spiritual and physical Jerusalem; shoulder another poem, a Jew palaver to God in a ‘foreign’ language, i.e.
not in Canaanitic, unconcerned that he may make ends meet classified (and crucified) as Christian; in yet another, a Somebody searches for a sleeping Creator in four Moslem cities, duo of which are at justness same time (as they in actuality are) also Jewish holy cities: “Mecca or Medina. / Jerusalem or Hebron.” But Kosman’s memorable part is not only local.
Rulership range is broad: a girlhood wound, hidden in the mid of a boast about honesty ability to make verse become known of any material; the staying power of English and computers thick language; love poems; and rhyming of ars poetica.
In addition interest his eight books of verse rhyme or reason l, Kosman is the author sustenance three volumes of post-modern wisdom on gender in traditional Mortal texts.
In 1997, Kosman co-edited an anthology called New Poetry: young poetry of faithwhich take the edge off to a public debate transfer the nature of religion reaction Israeli identity, and a moving dispute about the connection among poetry and spirituality in usual, and Hebrew poetry and Human sources in particular. In 2000 he was invited by Philanthropist Prize winning Polish poets Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska exceed participate in the interfaith Krakow festival Poetry – between Prayer pole Song.
The father of four dynasty from his first marriage, Kosman is now married to practised yoga teacher.
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