Mordechai Geldman

Mordechai Geldman
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Born	1946 Munich, Germany
Occupation	Poet, Art critic, Journalist, Photographer, Psychologist

Mordechai Geldman (Hebrew: מרדכי גלדמן‎; b. 1946) is an Israeli artist, author, poet and psychologist.

Biography

Geldman was born at a displaced persons camp in Munich to Polish parents who had survived the Holocaust. His family immigrated to Israel in 1949 and settled in Tel Aviv, where he has lived ever since. He completed a bachelor's in literature and a 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 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 16 poetry 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. Geldman was an art critic of the Israeli daily Haaretz, and treasured exhibitions for many Israeli artists.

Awards

• Chomsky Prize for Poetry (1983)
• Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Writers (1996)
• Brenner Prize for literature (1997)
• Amichai Prize (2004)
• Bialik Prize for Literature (2010)

Publications

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 Gershuni
• Mourning Songs (2000) with art by Pesach Slavosky
• Oh My Dear Wall (2000)
• The Heart's Poem (2004)
• Tamir's Poems (2007), under the pseudonym Daniel Kasif
• Years I Have Walked Beside you A & B (2011), a wide collection from Geldman's poetry books and new poems
• Becoming One (2013)
• Night Line (2015)

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 (2009)
• Dad's Bird: Naomi Brickman (2012)

Prose

• Neighbours and Other Perverts (2014)

See also

• List of Bialik Prize recipients

External links

• (Hebrew) Mordechai Geldman on Snunit