Yehuda Amichai is the most translated Israeli poet of all times. His poetry is very personal, and yet, at the same time it tells a story that is very Israeli and also very universal. In this engaging lecture participants will get to know Amichai as a person, the depth of the references to Jewish stories and stories from other cultures and the way that Israeli composers and singers interpreted his poems and made them into popular and familiar Israeli songs. 

The workshop dates are: 9/10, 9/24, 10/15, 10/29, 11/12, 12/3 - Thursdays 8-9:30 PM EDT. Every lecture presents different artists such as: Mati Caspi, Shlomo Gronich, Yehudit Ravitz and more. We record the lectures if you happen to miss one. The detailed plan in Hebrew is HERE.

The cost is $15 per lecture. Please buy the class pass HERE. The Zoom link will be sent to you via email no later then the day of the lecture.

Our lecturer, Ilan Vitemberg, was born and raised in Israel (Kibbutz Megiddo).  He graduated (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of the District of Columbia, with a degree in Theatre Arts, focusing on the use of drama in informal education. 

For the past 20 years he has been working with children, teens and adults, both as a formal and an informal teacher.  In 1999, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he immersed himself in finding new, creative ways to teach about Judaism, Israel and the Hebrew language to all ages. 

Between 2002 and 2006, he was the director of the Diller Teen Fellows program and a Teen Program Consultant at the Bureau of Jewish Education in San Francisco and then became the Director of the Israel Education Initiative and Director of Education Support Services at the Jewish Learning Works. 

Currently, he is an independent educational consultant and an Israel Education consultant at the Palo Alto Jewish Community Center.  He lives in Oakland, CA with his husband Peter with whom he also acts and performs as a member of the Up A Tree Puppetry duo.