Halit Yeshurun is a translator, poet, literary editor, and actor. Her father was poet Avoth Yeshurun. In the late sixties, Yeshurun burst onto the scene as an up-and-coming model and actor when she starred as the lead in her then-husband, Jacques Katmor’s film, A Woman’s Case (1969). She followed it up with subsequent appearances in David Greenberg’s Iris (1968) and Uri Zohar’s The Rooster (1971), and a 1971 book of poetry titled ‘24’.
In the early ‘80s, Yeshurun started and edited the literary journal Rooms (‘chadarim’), whose primary focus was poetry, and which remained in publication until 2005. Yeshurun has edited multiple poetry books including acclaimed Israeli poet, Yona Wallach posthumous poetry collection, The Unconscious Unfolds Like a Fan. Highlights of her other translation credits include the complete volumes of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, and Georges Simenon’s My Friend Maigret.
In his book, Good Stuff, Yehonatan Geffen wrote that ‘Who’s Afraid of Mrs. Levine,’ the song he’d originally written for folk rockers Hashlosharim (‘the singing trio’), was in fact inspired by Yeshurun – as opposed to critic Hedda Boshes, as many had thought at the time.
