Moshe Dor, (1932-2016) was born in Tel Aviv under British Mandatory rule. He was the author of scores of books, dozens of his own poetry, and translations ranging from contemporary American poets Charles Simic, Robert Hass and Rita Dove to British writers as iconic as Arthur Conan Doyle, Chesterton and Robert Graves.
Recipient of the Bialik Prize, Israel's top literary award, and (twice) the Prime Minister's Prize in Literature, Dor was a guest of the Rotterdam Poetry International Festival in 1996. He served as president of Israel's PEN Center, as Counselor for Cultural Affairs at the Israeli Embassy in London and as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the American University, Washington, DC, where he met his life partner (and English translator) Barbara Goldberg. Their collaboration lasted for more than 28 years, during which the poet divided his time between Israel and the US, and led to several anthologies of contemporary Israeli poetry including The Stones Remember and After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace.
Moshe Dor
Studios
Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)
Moshe Dor worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…