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Eliahu
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Eliahu
Toker was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
in 1934. Jewish argentine poet and translator.
He has written eight books of poetry, such
as “Lejaim”, 1974, and “Padretierra” (Fatherearth),
1977.
Poetry
translator from Yiddish into Spanish, he
has published many books with his translations,
such as "El resplandor de la palabra
judía", (The Blaze of the Jewish
Word), 1981, great anthology of seventy
Yiddish poets and more than 300 poems.
Translator of Hebrew classical texts, such
as “El Cantar de los Cantares” (The
Song of Songs), 1984, or the talmudic “Pirké Avot”,
1988. Editor of anthologies of Argentine
Jewish writers, among these “Buenos
Aires esquina Sábado, vida y obra
de César Tiempo” (Buenos
Aires Saturday corner, life and work of
César Tiempo), 1997. His books were
awarded the Faja de Honor (The Band of
Honour) in 1997 by the Argentine Writers
Society; in 1982 and 1989 the Mexican Jewish
community conferred upon him the Fernando
Jeno Award.
Architect,
he worked in his profession twenty years
and afterwards his only dedication has
be to literature, making also historic
and cultural exhibitions, like in the Argentine
National Librery "Destrucción
y Reconstrucción" with Ana
Weinstein, about the bombing of the Buenos
Aires Jewish Community building in july
1994. |