Yocheved Bat-Miriam (Hebrew: יוכבד בת-מרים; Russian: Иохевед Бат-Мирьям; pen name of Yocheved Zhlezniak) (5 March 1901 – 7 January 1980) was an Israeli poet. Bat-Miriam was Born in Belorussia to a Hasidic family. She studied pedagogy in Kharkov and at the universities of Odessa and Moscow. During this period, she participated in the revolutionary literary activities of the “Hebrew Octoberists”, a Communist literary group, and one of her earliest poem-cycles, a paean to revolutionary Russia entitled Erez (Land) was published in the group's anthology in 1926.[1] She is unusual among Hebrew poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine, later to be called Israel, in 1928.[2] Her first book of poetry, Merahok ("From a distance") was published in 1929. In 1948, her son Nahum (Zuzik) Hazaz from the writer Haim Hazaz died in the 1947–1949 Palestine war. Since then she never wrote a poem again.
Moshe Lifshits, Israel Zmora, the hostess Luba Goldberg, Avraham Shlonsky, Lea Goldberg, Yocheved Bat-Miriam (1938)
The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself, 2nd new edition, by Stanley Burnshaw, T. Carmi, Susan Glassman, Ariel Hirschfield and Ezra Spicehandler (editors), published 31 March 2002, ISBN0-8143-2485-1.
A Language Silenced : The Suppression of Hebrew Literature and Culture in the Soviet Union, by Jehoshua A. Gilboa. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, published 1982, ISBN0838630723 / ISBN978-0838630723
And Rachel Stole the Idols : The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing, by Wendy Zierler. Wayne State Univ. Press, published 2004, ISBN0814331475 / ISBN978-0814331477.
