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YOSSI (JOSE) GUZKO (FEBRUARY 14, 1938 – FEBRUARY 10, 2020) WAS AN ISRAELI POET, TRANSLATOR, AND PAGANIST, PROFESSOR OF HEBREW LITERATURE.

BIOGRAPHY
YOSSI GOMZO WAS BORN IN PARIS, FRANCE FOR THE ART CRITIC LIVING A GUSH, DURING HIS FATHER'S REIGN IN PARIS. THE RESURRECTION OF HIS MOTHER AT THE AGE OF FIVE, ROSE WITH HIS FATHER TO ISRAEL AND THE BABYLONIANS IN SEVERAL KIBBUTZS: GOB, THE GARDEN OF SAMUEL AND THE CROSSINGS. HE GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL IN GEORGIA. HE DID HIS MILITARY SERVICE AS A JOURNALIST AND EDITOR AT THE GANDA CAMP, AND AFTER THE MILITARY SERVICE HE BEGAN STUDYING HEBREW LITERATURE AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM.

IN 1968 HE MARRIED NAOMI, THE DAUGHTER OF THE KNESSET CHAIRMAN, ISRAEL ISAIAH. FROM THIS MARRIAGE, THEY WERE BORN IN 1969, BUT THE MARRIAGE DID NOT RISE WELL, AND THE COUPLE HAD A LOT IN COURT. AFTER LEAVING ISRAEL IN 1973, HIS PROPERTIES WERE SOLD IN ISRAEL AND CIRCUMCISED FOR FOOD PAYMENT, BUT THESE WERE NOT ENOUGH TO COVER HIS DEBT. IN 1995, THE COUPLE DIVORCED. IN SEPTEMBER 2013, GROZ WAS DECLARED TO BE A BANKRUPT CRIMINAL OF THE PAYMENT OF THE FOOD DEBT, AFTER A COMPLEX PROCEDURE OF OVER A DECADE, WHICH INCLUDED MANY DISCUSSIONS IN BANKRUPTCY ON FOODS AND APPEALS TO THE RULING OF THE SUPREME COURT.

AFTER YEARS IN WHICH HE LIVED IN SHORTEN, GOZA MOVED IN EARLY 2016 TO HAIFA.

IN RECENT YEARS, HIS LIFE HAS BEEN BALLETD IN HIS MIRROR WITH A MAGNIFICENT FACE AND AN ETERNAL CAP FOR HIS HEAD. HE ATTENDED LITERARY AND CULTURAL MEETINGS HELD IN HAIFA.

GROZO DIED IN 2020, FOLLOWING AN INJURY, AFTER HE WAS HUMANLY ILL.

WORKS
EVEN AS A CHILD, BALLET WAS BUZZED WITH HIS LITERARY TALENT AND HIS FIRST SHOT WAS PUBLISHED NOT IN HIS HANDS AT THE CHILDREN’S GUARD WHEN HE WAS NINE YEARS OLD. HIS FIRST SONGS WERE PUBLISHED BY ABRAHAM LEVINSKY AND NATHAN ALTMAN. HE CONTINUED WITH THE WRITING OF THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION IN THE KIBBUTZ AND IN THE REST OF THE YOUTH AND CHILDREN’S SECURITY. HE ALSO PUBLISHED LYRICAL SONGS IN “SPEAK,” “THE LAND,” “ON THE GUARD,” “RESIDENT” AND MORE. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE EXPANSIVE COLUMNS CAME IN TOPICAL AFFAIRS IN THE “SUPERSERVATION” – IN THE “MAP AND OUTSIDE” AND “THING” – “ON A BENCH IN THE AVENUE.” AT THE END OF 1958, HE WROTE, "ARE YOU YOUNG?", WHICH IS A HUMOROUS AND SATIRE. HE HAS WRITTEN MANY SYMPHONIES TO BANDS AND RADIO ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS. AMONG THE SONGS HE WROTE: "THE CURSE," "WHERE ARE THESE GIRLS", "THE SIGN THAT YOU ARE YOUNG", "IF ALL THE LOVERS", "THIS IS JAFFA", "LEE WANTS TO TAKE THE MOON", "THE OTHER JERUSALEM", "JUST A DAY OF SAND", IN YOUR GATES OF JERUSALEM, "LEE TO YOU" AND "WHAT IS HE DOING TO HER" (A VERSION OF THE ITALIAN SONG "ROSUS"). IN 1965, GROZ WROTE THE WORDS TO THE FIRST GARDEN PUBLISHED BY YAIR ROSENBLUM "A QUARTER-YEAR VACATION" FOR THE BAND.

IN FABRIC WITH A SUCCESSFUL CAREER OF RECKLESSNESS, HE ALSO WROTE SERIOUS LYRIC POETRY, AND PUBLISHED UNDER VARIOUS PEN NAMES.

FROM 1971 TO 1872, HE WAS ALSO HIS EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF THE POPEYE/SHEI WEEKLY, WHICH WAS COMPOSED OF TWO PARTS: THE OUTER PART, "POPSAI", USUALLY TRANSLATED COMICS, USUALLY FROM THE LEGENDS OF THE DEAD POPSAI AND HIS GANG (SYPIC, OLIVE-MANAGE, LOTTERY-BROTOS, AND WIMFI, AND MORE), PROFESSOR OF THE INNOVATOR. IN THE INNER PART, "MY FRIENDS", WERE INCLUDED SONGS AND STORIES FOR CHILDREN. YES, VALUE AND PUBLISHERS HAVE WRITTEN A LITERARY JOURNAL CALLED “POOR,” FROM WHICH TWO HORNS HAVE EMERGED. IN THESE SCROLLS, THE CYCLE OF HIS POEMS, WRITTEN UNDER A PSEUDONYM NAME, WAS PRINTED. SOME SAY THAT THESE SONGS WILL FEED THEIR DIFFICULT PERSONAL AND FAMILY TROUBLES.

IN 1973, HE MOVED TO AUSTRALIA WHERE HE WAS ORDERED. FOR TWENTY YEARS HE DID IN THE UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA, WHERE HE TAUGHT HEBREW LITERATURE AS A PROFESSOR AT DIFFERENT UNIVERSITIES. IN 1993 HE RETURNED TO ISRAEL AND ATTENDED THE ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF EILAT. FROM THERE HE BEGAN TO REPUBLISH A VERY SATIRICAL AND CRITICAL POETRY. HIS POEMS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED SINCE VARIOUS JOURNALS: "NORTH", "MATHES", AND MORE. YES, HIS SONGS WILL BE PUBLISHED, UNDER THE PSEUDONYM "P. COLE", IN THE JOURNAL OF SINGING