Mordechai Geldman is an Israel

Israel

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i artist

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, author

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, poet

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 and psychologist

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.

Biography

Geldman was born at a displaced persons camp

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 in Munich

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 to Polish

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 parents who had survived the Holocaust. His family immigrated to Israel in 1949 and settled in Tel Aviv

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, where he has lived ever since. He completed a bachelor's in literature and an master's in clinical psychology at Bar Ilan University.

Geldman spent six years in residency as a psychotherapist. He later established a unit for the selection of managers at Pilat management services and served as a clinical psychologist at the IDF

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 center for the evaluation of senior officers. He is currently an independent psychotherapist using psychoanalytical methods.

Geldman's poetry is philosophical, psychological, and existentialistic. It combines literary Hebrew and everyday language, even some slang. He published 11 poetry

Poetry

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 books and 6 non-fiction books.

As a visual artist Geldman is engaged in plastic arts, ceramics and photography. His photographs were exhibited at such places as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

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. Geldman was an art critic of the Israeli daily Haaretz

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, and treasured exhibitions for many Israeli artists.

Awards

• Chomsky Prize for Poetry (1983)
• Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Writers (1996)
• Brenner Prize
  Brenner Prize
  The Brenner Prize is an Israeli literary prize awarded annually by the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel and the Haft Family Foundation.It was founded in the name of the author Yosef Haim Brenner and was first awarded in 1945....
  
   for literature (1997)
• Amichai
  Yehuda Amichai
  Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew....
  
   Prize (2004)
• Bialik Prize
  Bialik Prize
  The Bialik Prize is an annual literary award given by the municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel for significant accomplishments in Hebrew literature. The prize is named in memory of Hayyim Nahman Bialik. There are two separate prizes, one specifically for "Literature", which is in the field of fiction,...
  
   for Literature (2010)

Poetry

• Sea Time, Land Time (1970)
• Bird (1975)
• Window (1980)
• Songs 1966-1983 (1983)
• Milano (1988)
• Eye (1993)
• Book of Ask (1997)
• Time (1997) with art by Moshe Gershuny
• Mourning Songs (2000) with art by Pesach Slavosky
• Oh My Dear Wall (2000)
• The Heart's Poem (2004)

Non-fiction

• Dark Mirror (1995)
• Psychoanalytic Criticism (1998)
• Eating Fire, Drinking Fire (2002)
• The True Self and the Self of Truth (2006)
• In the Silver Mirror: Bianca Eshel Gershuny (2007)
• Sharon Landscapes: Helen Berman
  Helen Berman
  Helen Berman is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. She was a textile designer in the 1960s and has been a painter and occasionally an art educator since the 1970s. She is well known in Israel and has exhibited also in Germany and the Netherlands...
  
  (2009)

External links

Mordechai Geldman on Snunit