Mordechai Geldman

Mordechai Geldman (; b. 1946) is an Israeli poet, artist, and psychologist
Biography.
Geldman was born at a displaced persons camp in Munich to Polish parents who had survived the Holocaust. His family immigrated to Israel in 1949 and settled in Tel Aviv, where he has lived ever since. He studied world literature and clinical psychology at Bar Ilan University. He is currently an independent psychotherapist using psychoanalytical methods.
Geldman has published 18 poetry books, a book of short stories and 6 non-fiction books. A two volume collection from his poetry books was published in 2011. His last poetry book  is the third volume of the collection of his poetry written till 2019 . His poems were translated into many languages: Chinese and Japanese included. His book "Becoming One" was translated to Portuguese ("Teoria Do Um") and published in Portugal on 2017. A large collection of his poems in English was published on 2018  in Suny Press, State University of N.Y.
Geldman's poetry is philosophical, psychological, and existentialistic. It combines literary Hebrew and everyday language, even using some slang. His later poetry tends to be meditative and includes many haiku. He was influenced by Zen Buddhist esthetics and philosophy. His poetry sings with many voices – lyrical, philosophical, sensual, erotic, religious, ironic and others. A sober mind integrates all these aspects of his personality.
His non-fiction books deal with subjects as the self in psychoanalytic theories and in Yoga and Buddhism, psychoanalytic interpretation of literature, doubles and symmetries in Shakespeare's plays, his favorite Israeli poets and artists, etc. 
As a visual artist, Geldman is engaged in plastic arts, ceramics and photography. His photographs were exhibited at such places as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Geldman was an art critic of the Israeli daily Haaretz, and treasured exhibitions for many Israeli artists.