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Renata MuhaIsraeli writer
Date of Birth: 01.01.1933
Country:  Israel |
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Renata Mukha
Early Life and EducationRenata Mukha was a Soviet-born Israeli children's poet and educator. Born in the Soviet Union, she lived in Kharkiv from 1936. During World War II, she evacuated to Tashkent with her mother.
Mukha graduated from the Foreign Languages Department of Kharkiv University, where her mother worked as an associate professor of German philology. She defended her PhD in English syntax and authored over 40 academic papers.
Academic Career
Mukha's research focused on English syntax, and she developed a course entitled "Mother Goose Visiting the Hen in a Hut" on the influence of English children's literature on Russian. She also created the "Fairy English" method for using oral storytelling in foreign language instruction.
Literary Career
Mukha published several poetry collections, including "Confusion" (with Nina Voronel), "About the Silly Horse, the Forgetful Owl, the Hippopotamus Brothers, the Cat Who Couldn't Purr, and the Kitten Who Thought He Was a Tiger" (with Polly Cameron and Vadim Levin), "Hippopoppoem," "Understatements," and "Miracles Happen in Life."
Some of her poems were set to music and performed by Sergei Nikitin. Mukha described herself not as a children's poet but as a translator from the languages of animals, objects, and natural phenomena.
Later Life in Israel
In 1995, Mukha moved to Israel and settled in Beersheba. She taught at Ben-Gurion University and received the Medal of the Society of the Janusz Korczak House in Jerusalem in 2006.
Personal Life
Mukha was married to Vadim Aleksandrovich Tkachenko, a mathematician, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, and professor at the Physicotechnical Institute of Low Temperatures and Ben-Gurion University.
