'Homeland I will name the language of poetry in a foreign country' - Modes of challenging the home/exile binary in Leah Goldberg's poetry

Leah Goldberg (1911-1970) is one of the most important female figures of Hebrew Poetry. After her immigration to Palestine in 1935, she became a leader of the Hebrew Modernist Movement, together with Abraham Shlonsky and Natan Alterman. Already in her childhood Leah Goldberg chose to write poems in Hebrew, even though her mother language was Russian. This article explores two of Leah Goldberg's strategies for challenging the traditional European and Hebrew modernist binary of home and exile. Through a detailed reading of Goldberg's poems, the article focuses on two main issues: the duality of homeland and Europe as a lyrical heterotopia. Using the poetic imagination, Goldberg transforms her personal, biographical experience to forms of multiple existence in her historical chronotopos.