In 1998 Ravikovitch was awarded the Israel Prize (1998), the country’s highest honor. The judges’ accompanying speech noted, ‘‘Her poetic style is distinguished by its skillful synthesis of a rich literary language with the colloquial idiom, and of her personal outcry with that of the collective. This has made her the most important— indeed the most distinctive—Hebrew poet of our time. She is the central pillar of Hebrew lyric poetry.’’

Books

Alter, Robert. Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1977, 259–260.

Anderson, Elliott, and Robert Friend. Contemporary

Israeli Literature: An Anthology. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1977.

Cooke, Miriam, and Roshni Rustomji-Kerns. Blood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994: 46, 90.

Raizen, Esther, transl. No Rattling of Sabers: An

Anthology of Israeli War Poetry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.

Periodicals

Bloch, Chana, and Chana Kronfeld. ‘‘The Bell Jar

Shatters: The Political Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch,’’

Tikkun Magazine 20, 6 (November–December

2005): 63–64. Pincas, Israel. ‘‘Leaving Traces.’’ Modern Hebrew

Literature 1 (1988): 36–39. Ravikovitch, Dahlia. ‘‘On the Attitude toward Children

In Wartime.’’ The Progressive, Vol. 70 (October

2006): 38. Weiseltier, Meir. ‘‘Real Love Is Not What It Seems to

Be.’’ Modern Hebrew Literature 17 (1996): 15–19.

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