Hanoch Bartov Explained
| Hanoch Bartov |
| Native Name: | חנוך ברטוב |
| Native Name Lang: | he |
| Birth Name: | Hanoch Helfgott |
| Birth Date: | 13 August 1926 |
| Birth Place: | Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine |
| Nationality: | Israeli |
| Occupation: | Author, journalist |
| Notable Works: | The Brigade, Everyone Had Six Wings |
| Awards: | Israel Prize (2010), Bialik Prize (1985), Agnon Prize (2006) |
Hanoch Bartov (Hebrew: חנוך ברטוב, 13 August 1926 – 13 December 2016) was an Israeli author and journalist.
Biography
Hanoch Helfgott (Bartov) was born in Petah Tikva in 1926, a year after his parents immigrated from Poland.[1] He attended a religious school and then the Ahad Haam gymnasium.[2] After working in diamond polishing and welding for two years, he enlisted in 1943, at the age of 17, in the Palestine Regiment of the British Army. He spent three years in the Jewish Brigade, first in Palestine and then in Italy and the Netherlands, where he served as a medic, caring for Holocaust survivors in DP camps.
After World War II, Bartov studied Jewish and general history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During the War of Independence he served in field army units and the Israel Defense Forces in Jerusalem. He lived for four years on Kibbutz Ein Hahoresh, working as a farmhand and a teacher.[3] From 1966 to 1968, Bartov served as a cultural advisor in the Israeli embassy in London.
Literary career
Bartov published his first story in 1945, when he was a 19-year-old soldier in Europe.[3] In his writing, as a journalist and novelist, Bartov describes his first contacts with survivors of the Holocaust. The Brigade is a fictionalized account of the operation of the Jewish Brigade.[1]
Awards
Among the various prizes received by Bartov for his work are the following:
Books published in English
- The Brigade (1967), translation of Pitzei Bagrut (1965)
- Everyone Had Six Wings (1974), translation of Shesh Kenafaim Le-Echad (1954)
- An Israeli at the Court of St. James (1971), translation of Arba Yisraelim Be-Hatzer Saint James (1969)
- Whose Little Boy Are You? (1978), translation of Shel Mi Ata Yeled (1970)
- Dado, 48 years 20 days (1981), translation of Dado, 48 Shanim Ve-Od 20 Yom (1978). Note: An updated and expanded edition of this book was published in Hebrew in 2002 but has not yet been translated to English.
See also
Notes and References
- http://www.olinfilms.com/brigade/resources/bios/bartov.html The hidden story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II
- Web site: Hanoch Bartov - News - The Jerusalem Post . https://web.archive.org/web/20110124124548/http://newstopics.jpost.com/topic/Hanoch_Bartov . 2011-01-24 . 2019-08-06.
- https://archive.today/20130125195659/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1155633.html Hanoch Bartov, 83, wins Israel Prize
- Web site: List of Bialik Prize recipients 1933–2004 (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv Municipality website. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071217143811/http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Hebrew/_MultimediaServer/Documents/12516738.pdf. 2007-12-17.
- Web site: Recipient's C.V (in Hebrew). Israel Prize Official Site. https://web.archive.org/web/20101021011320/http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/MekableyPrasTasha/ChanochBarTov/CV.htm. 21 October 2010. dead.
- Web site: Israel Prize Judges' Rationale (in Hebrew). Israel Prize Official Site. https://web.archive.org/web/20100505070528/http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/MekableyPrasTasha/ChanochBarTov/Nimukim.htm. 5 May 2010. dead.
