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Karen Alkalay-Gut – Press Kit
Bridging histories, voices, and languages
About Karen Alkalay-Gut
Karen Alkalay-Gut is an award-winning poet, translator, and Professor Emerita of English Literature at Tel Aviv University. Her work spans over four decades, weaving personal history, Jewish identity, feminist insight, and political witness into a unique poetic voice. She has published more than twenty volumes of poetry in English and Hebrew, alongside biography, translation, and critical essays.
Recent Books
Survivors (2025)
A powerful new collection giving voice to Holocaust survivors — exploring resilience, memory, and the inheritance of trauma.
Inheritance (2021)
A Yiddish/English journey through family history, spanning generations and lands.
Egypt: An Israelite Returns (2021)
Poems of travel, ancestry, and confrontation with history — returning to Egypt as both outsider and descendant of the Exodus.
A Word in Edgewise (2020)
Women tell their stories un the Bible through humor, irony, and deeply human reflection
Selected Praise
“Her wit, honesty, and compassion make every poem an invitation to look more deeply at the world.” — Alicia Ostriker
“God created women but Karen Alkalay-Gut created the poems that define them. … I love her humor as much as her seriousness.” — Erica Jong
a voice which is lyrical even when most direct –Elaine Feinstein
As things go speedily from worse to worse, it is only poetry that will sustain us. And what better place to find it than in the poetry of Karen Alkalay-Gut who, with good humor and warmth, has brought and taught literature and poetry in Israel for decades, through many wars and difficult times. For Alkalay-Gut poetry endures and therefore for us too. – Rachel Neve Midbar
The poetry we were looking for was right there under our noses but familiarity made us blind to it. Fortunately we have the visionary playfulness of Karen Alkalay-Gut to reveal and label for us.– Robert Priest
Contact & Links
🌐 Website: https://karenalkalay-gut.com
📧 Email: gut22@tauex.tau.ac.il
Karen Alkalay-Gut – Press Kit
Bridging histories, voices, and languages
About Karen Alkalay-Gut
Karen Alkalay-Gut is an award-winning poet, translator, and Professor Emerita of English Literature at Tel Aviv University. Her work spans over four decades, weaving personal history, Jewish identity, feminist insight, and political witness into a unique poetic voice. She has published more than twenty volumes of poetry in English and Hebrew, alongside biography, translation, and critical essays.
Recent Books
Survivors (2025)
A powerful new collection giving voice to Holocaust survivors — exploring resilience, memory, and the inheritance of trauma.
Inheritance (2021)
A Yiddish/English journey through family history, spanning generations and lands.
Egypt: An Israelite Returns (2021)
Poems of travel, ancestry, and confrontation with history — returning to Egypt as both outsider and descendant of the Exodus.
A Word in Edgewise (2020)
Women tell their stories un the Bible through humor, irony, and deeply human reflection
Selected Praise
“Her wit, honesty, and compassion make every poem an invitation to look more deeply at the world.” — Alicia Ostriker
“God created women but Karen Alkalay-Gut created the poems that define them. … I love her humor as much as her seriousness.” — Erica Jong
a voice which is lyrical even when most direct –Elaine Feinstein
As things go speedily from worse to worse, it is only poetry that will sustain us. And what better place to find it than in the poetry of Karen Alkalay-Gut who, with good humor and warmth, has brought and taught literature and poetry in Israel for decades, through many wars and difficult times. For Alkalay-Gut poetry endures and therefore for us too. – Rachel Neve Midbar
The poetry we were looking for was right there under our noses but familiarity made us blind to it. Fortunately we have the visionary playfulness of Karen Alkalay-Gut to reveal and label for us.– Robert Priest
Contact & Links
🌐 Website: https://karenalkalay-gut.com
📧 Email: gut22@tauex.tau.ac.il
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