1. Meir Wieseltier was an Israeli poet and translator.
10 Facts About Meir Wieseltier
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Meir Wieseltier was born in Moscow in 1941, shortly before the German invasion of Russia.
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Meir Wieseltier was taken to Novosibirsk in southwestern Siberia by his mother and two older sisters.
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Meir Wieseltier's father was killed while serving in the Red Army in Leningrad.
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Meir Wieseltier published his first poems at the age of eighteen.
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Meir Wieseltier was co-founder and co-editor of the literary magazine Siman Kriya, and a poetry editor for the Am Oved publishing house.
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Meir Wieseltier translated English, French, and Russian poetry into Hebrew.
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Meir Wieseltier penned powerful poems of social and political protest in Israel.
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Meir Wieseltier's voice is alternately anarchic and involved, angry and caring, trenchant and lyric.
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Meir Wieseltier was a poet in residence at the University of Haifa.