Helen Bar-Lev is an artist and a poet, currently living in Karmiel after being evacuated from Metulla, where she has been living for the past 16 years.
“Jerusalem is the center of Helen Bar-Lev’s universe. In Spirit Captive, she explores — through poetry, prose, and painting — every aspect of her decades-long love affair with the holy city. It is an intense relationship, replete with faith and despair, break-ups and reunions, danger and beauty, passion and obsession and escape. Bar-Lev’s remarkable gifts make it all come alive.”
Pesach Rotem, Secretary of Voices Israel Group of Poets in English
This evening we will meet Helen in person and she will introduce us to her new book.
Copies will be available for purchase for NIS 40 (cash or bit).
Helen Bar-Lev was born in New York City and arrived in Israel after High School in 1959 with a scholarship to study at the Haim Greenberg Teachers' Institute in the Ba'aka neighborhood of Jerusalem.
In 1963 she was accepted to study art at the Cooper Union School for Art and Architecture, and finally graduated with a B.A. in anthropology.
In 1973 she made Aliyah with her family and within the year the beauty of the landscape helped her again to focus on art.
She has lived in Rehovot and Tsfat but the most colorful, memorable phase of her life were the years she spent in Jerusalem.
In 2004 she began writing poetry and has won many accolades for her art and poetry.
Cheese and wine will be provided.
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