Aharon Shabtai

Born in 1939 and educated on a kibbutz, and at the Hebrew University, the Sorbonne, and Cambridge, Aharon Shabtai is the author of sixteen books of poetry and the greatest contemporary translator into Hebrew of Greek drama.

Aharon Shabtai

Born in 1939 and educated on a kibbutz, and at the Hebrew University, the Sorbonne, and Cambridge, Aharon Shabtai is the author of sixteen books of poetry and the greatest contemporary translator into Hebrew of Greek drama.

Books by Aharon Shabtai

  • J'Accuse

    Aharon Shabtai, Peter Cole

    Paperback, 2003

    Explosive poems by an Israeli accusing his country of crimes against humanity.
  • War & Love, Love & War: New and Selected Poems

    Aharon Shabtai, Peter Cole

    Paperback, 2011

    A rich, far-ranging, powerful selection of a lifetime’s work by the Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai, “one of the most exciting writers working in Hebrew today” (Ha’aretz).