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Yoel Hoffmann

Author of Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death

Includes the names: Y. Hoffmann, Yoel Hoffman, Yoel Hoffmann, יואל הופמן, יואל הופמן

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Hoffmann, Yoel
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1937
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male
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Hungary (birth)
Israel
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Israel
Education
Japan (PhD)
Occupations
professor of Japanese poetry, Buddhism and philosophy at Haifa University
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Bialik Prize (2002)
Koret Prize
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His parents moved to pre-state Israel when Yoel was one. His mother died when he was a child, and he spent years living with various family members and in a children's home until his father remarried. Yoel studied extensively in Japan, translates Japanese poetry, and spent two years in a Buddhist monastery.
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