Yehudit Kafri

Yehudit Kafri Meiri (יהודית כפרי מאירי; born 1935) is a 20th–21st century Israeli poet and a writer, as well as editor and translator.

Biography
She was born in 1935 and lived as a child in Kibbutz Ein HaHoresh, where her parents were founding members. Yehudit belonged to the first group of children born in this kibbutz.

After she got married, she moved to Kibbutz Sasa, where she wrote her first book, The Time Will Have Mercy (Hebrew: הזמן ירחם), which was published in 1962, one year after she moved to Kibbutz Shoval with her family. In Kibbutz Shoval she published a few more poetry books and children's books and made her first attempt at writing prose including a book describing her childhood memories, All The Summer We Went Barefoot (Hebrew: כל הקיץ הלכנו יחפים), which was successful and sold several editions.

Yehudit Kafri, mother of three and grandmother of four, has lived since 1989 with her husband in Mazkeret Batya, where she continues to write and publish books of poetry and biographies. In 2003 she published an historical biographic novel, Zosha from the Jezreel Valley to the Red Orchestra, which tells the life story of Zosha Poznanska, who was a member of the Red Orchestra and eventually killed by the Gestapo. This novel won The Best Literary Achievement of the Year Prize in Israel. It has since been translated and published in English, and in Polish, and lately in French.

Poetry

 * Time Will Have Mercy, Makhbarot Lesifrut, 1962
 * The spur of this moment, Sifriat Poalim, 1966
 * From Here and From Another Country, S.P. 1970
 * Small Variations, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1975
 * Woman With Parasol, Gvanim, 1997
 * Koranit, S.P. 1982
 * Awn of Summer, S.P. 1988
 * Man Woman Bird, Iaron Golan, 1993
 * Zosha\Poems, Iton 77, 2006

Prose

 * Mula Agin (Biography), Kibbutz Shoval, 1969
 * To Love a bleu Whale (non fiction), Sifriat Poalim, 1982
 * Avraham Zakai (Biography), the family, 1995
 * All Summer We Walked Barefoot (memoir), Shdemot-Tag, 1996
 * Sheindl (Biography), the family, 1997
 * Zosha – From the Jezreel Valley to the Red Orchestra, Keter, 2003
 * Yonatan, What will come of you! - The family, 2009

Children

 * It was During Vacation (musicale for children), Sifriat Poalim, 1974
 * Our Champion Tom, Sifriat Poalim, 1987

Translation
For Sifriat Poalim Publishing House – 14 psychological books. Among them: The Dynamic of Creation, by Anthony Storr (1972), 1983

Editing
For Sifriat Poalim and others – 12 books. Among them: Border Crossing – Poems from the Lebanon War, 1983