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Unsettling the Land: Ludwig Strauss’s Journey from German Romanticism to Neoclassical Hebrew

In 1934, just a few months after immigrating to Palestine, Ludwig Strauss wrote his first poem in Hebrew. The result of a painstaking process of self-translation between his native German and his newly acquired Hebrew, “El ha-mifrats” (To the Bay) was one of two iterations of the poem. The German version appeared shortly after its completion in the volume Land Israel (Land of Israel, 1935), whereas the Hebrew version remained unseen until 1951, the year Strauss’s first and only Hebrew poetry volume, Sha‘ot va-dor (Hours and the Generation), was published.1 Other than one shared poem, these two volumes have strikingly little in common. Whereas Land Israel offers an idealized portrait of the Zionist landscape as imagined from afar, Sha‘ot va-dor responds to the horrors of the Second World War and