Benjamin Tene
Israeli poet and translator (1914–1999)
Benjamin Tene (Hebrew: בנימין טנא; 27 Kislev, 15 December 1914, Warsaw - 13 April 1999, Tel Aviv) was a Hebrew writer, poet, translator, editor and children's author.
Early life
Benjamin Tene was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1914. His mother was secular and his father was a follower of an established family. Tene had two sisters. Tene studied at a cheder and in his youth, after the death of his mother, he joined the Hashomer Hatzair movement and began writing a diary and poems in Hebrew.
Migration to Israel
He graduated from the Hebrew Gymnasium of the "Education" network in Warsaw. He was trained in salons and immigrated to Eretz Israel with the pioneers of Kibbutz Ayalon in 1937. He was one of the founders of the kibbutz and spent about ten years there. During World War II, Tene gave shelter to the Polish poet Wladyslaw Broniewski, who arrived in Israel with the Polish Andres army. Tanna knew Broniewski from Poland.
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