1. Shaul Tchernichovsky or Saul Gutmanovich Tchernichovsky was a Russian-born Hebrew poet.
18 Facts About Shaul Tchernichovsky
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Shaul Tchernichovsky is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky attended a modern Jewish primary school and transferred to a secular Russian school at the age of 10.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky published his first poems in Odessa where he studied from 1890 to 1892 and became active in Zionist circles.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky married the Russian-born Christian, Melania Karlova, and resisted all demands from fellow Jews in Palestine that she convert to Judaism.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky served as doctor of the Herzliya Hebrew High School in Tel Aviv.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky writes on Hebrew subjects as in "In Endor", a poem about King Saul.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky particularly identified with the character of Saul, perhaps due to his own name.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky further describes in the poem the tragic fall of Saul and his sons on Mount Gilboa.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky is the Hebrew poet most identified with the sonnet.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky introduced the crown of sonnets into the Hebrew language as a "sonnet" built of fifteen sonnets in which the final sonnet consists of the first lines of the other fourteen sonnets.
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Some even believe that Shaul Tchernichovsky's idylls serve as an example and a model for all of the idylls that have been written in the Hebrew language.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky edited the section on medicine in the Hebrew encyclopedia Eshkol.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky translated Sophocles, Horace, Shakespeare, Moliere, Pushkin, Goethe, Heine, Byron, Shelley, the Kalevala, the Gilgamesh Cycle, the Icelandic Edda, etc.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky was active in writers' organizations and a member of the Committee of the Hebrew Language.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky was the editor of the Hebrew terminology manual for medicine and the natural sciences.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky was twice awarded the Bialik Prize for literature, in 1940 and in 1942.
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In 2011, Shaul Tchernichovsky was chosen to be one of four Israeli poets whose portraits would be on Israeli currency ; the 50 NIS bill was unveiled on 10 September 2014.