Product Description: In this unparalleled study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, preeminent authority Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts. He takes us around the world of the Jewish Diaspora, comparing the changes in Hebrew verse as it came into contact with the Canaanite, Greek, Arabic, Italian, German, Russian, Yiddish, and English poetic forms...read more

Provides information on the Yiddish language and literature, describes poetic forms, and gathers poems in Yiddish and English by seven of the best Jewish American poets

Product Description: This collection of essays, originally published at different times, presents a coherent, systematic, and comprehensive theory of the work of literature and its major aspects. The approach, which may be called "Constructive Poetics," does not assume that a work of literature is a text with fixed structures and meanings, but a text that invites the reader to evoke or project a network of interrelated constructs, complementary or contradictory as they may be...read more

Offers the first in-depth look at the art of Marc Chagall and the meanings of the sometimes hidden but more often overt images found in the 'lost Jewish world' of his childhood, from his early masterpieces made in Russia and in Paris to his Yiddish art theater paintings.

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Product Description: Book by Harshav, Benjamin

A collection of poetry and prose relates the author's thoughts on God, nature, love, war, and childhood memories

The author shares his thoughts about childhood, history, love, war, and his everyday experiences in this collection of recent poetry