Alisa Nahor grew up in Germany, Berlin and emigrated to the then mandate of Palestine in 1938 at the age of 23.  As an adult she worked in the head office of Keren Hayesod in Jerusalem and then as a scientific secretary of Prof. Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (Torczyner), a Bible Scholar.

 

In later life the then already published poet took upon painting and had a talent for expression, which found its source in a startling internal force. She used different approaches and an extensive range of techniques on both paper and canvas. She created impressionistic landscapes in watercolors, and symbolic figurative paintings in oil. 
In her many outstanding portraits, she succeeded in penetrating into the psychological depths of her subjects. 
Alisa Nahor's paintings have been exhibited worldwide in galleries, general exhibitions and private collections including, of course, in Israel.

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She had an exceptional flair for languages. She had a perfect command of seven languages. Five volumes of her poems have been published: four in Hebrew and one in French. Scholars of modern poetry have warmly reviewed them. Her poems are included in the curricula of many Israeli secondary schools and in a few universities in Israel. She was also known as an excellent translator of world poetry.\

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Most of the latter years of her life, she spent in Safed, which is a holy city in the Galilee, a mountainous region in the north of Israel.

 

Awards and Prizes
1961 AKUM Prize for Poetry 
1967 Herman Shtruck Award, Haifa Municipality

Exhibitions
1997 Solo Exhibition, Painters & Sculptors Association House, Haifa
1967 General Exhibition, Art in Israel, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1965 Central Exhibition, Art in Israel, Tel Aviv Art Museum