Leah Goldberg was a prolific Hebrew

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 poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher. Her writings are considered classics of Israeli literature

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 and remain very popular among Hebrew speaking Israelis.
Goldberg was born to a Jewish Lithuanian

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 family from Kaunas

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, however her mother traveled to the nearby German city of Königsberg (today, Russian Kaliningrad

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) in order to give birth in better medical conditions.