Collected Poems

Though his entire oeuvre consists of only eleven published poems, Avraham Ben Yitzhak is a legend in the history of Hebrew poetry and one of its most admired figures. Born Abraham Sonne in Galicia (Poland) in 1883, he received a traditional Jewish education, then went on to study in Berlin and Vienna, making the latter his home for the better part of the first three decades of the new century. With the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938, he fled and took up residence in Palestine.