Funeral services were held on the Mount of Olives today for the Israeli writer and literary critic Yeshurun Keshet who died in Jerusalem yesterday at the age of 84. Keshet, born Yaacob Kopelevitz, was one of the last survivors of the generation of Israel’s Poet Laureate, Chaim Nachman Bialik and was prominent in his own right as a man of letters. He was a recipient of the Bialik Award, the Tchernchovsky Award and the Brenner Prize for his poems, essays and books on literature. He translated many European classics into Hebrew, among them works by Franz Kafka, Romain Roland. Thomas Mann and Winston Churchill.
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