The Israeli poet Elazar Benyoëtz was born in 1937 in Wiener Neustadt/Lower Austria. In 1939 he emigrated along with his family to Palestine. He currently lives in Jerusalem. After completing his rabbinical exams, he began to write his first poems in the Hebrew language. In 1964 he came to Berlin and laid the foundation for the Bibliographia Judaica, an exhibition of the entire German-language Jewish literature since the 18th century. During his four years in Berlin, the German language became the language of his poetry. From the 1970s onward, he published many books in which he creatively combined aphorisms, short prose texts, and quotations.