Product Description: Sixty-five Israeli poets write of their despair over war and their fierce craving for peace. One reviewer wrote "the tragedy of war and hopes for peace, the alef and tav of Israeli life, shine through this moving collection." Among the 35 translators of poems in this collection, all with Moshe Dor: Barbara Goldberg, Jane Hirshfield, Shirley Kaufman, the late William Matthews, Steven Mitchell, Linda Pastan,  Myra Sklarew and Henry Taylor...read more

Analyzes the structure, functions, and metaphors of the poetry in Psalms, Job, Proverbs, and other books of the Old Testament

Product Description: Raised in a Ladino-speaking family of Bulgarian Jewish immigrants, Pinhas- Cohen fuses the ancient Sephardic chant of her childhood with the contemporary rhythm of Israeli life. This singular talent for bridging the ancient and the modern sets her apart from most other Hebrew poets of her generation...read more

Product Description: More than 60 years after his death, Chaim Nachman Bialik is inevitably called the finest and most influential modern Hebrew poet. Hailed as the poet laureate of Jewish nationalism, he was seen as the poet of hope and revival in an age that witnessed the Russian Pale of Settlement, pogroms, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of Zionism...read more

A dramatic English-language translation of the influential modern Hebrew poet's key works includes an extract from 'In the City of Slaughter,' which rendered him famous upon its publication in 1903, and a number of folk poems that have frequently been set to music.

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Product Description: Book by Hakak, Lev

Product Description: Ronny Someck is an enormously popular poet and radio host in Israel. Born in Iraq, he spent his childhood in a transit camp for new immigrants. This is his first full-length book to appear in English; his Sephardi voice is rich with slang, hot music, street gangsters and army commandos, and the odors of falafel and schwarma...read more

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Product Description: Shmuel Hanagid, poet, rabbi, Talmudic scholar, statesman, general and bon vivant was born in Cordoba, Spain, in 993 C.E. Settling in the city-state of Granada, he rose through its court life to become Grand Vizier and chief military commander...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "Yehuda Amichai begins to look more and more like a truly major poet - in the strict sense of the term. That is, there's a depth, breadth and weighty momentum in these subtle and intricate poems of his, even in the slightest, that sounds more and more like the undersong of a people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This essay chronicles and analyzes the rise and fall of the prophetic poem in modern Hebrew literature. While focusing on H.N. Bialik's contribution, it considers the historical, literary and artistic factors influencing the fate of the prophetic poem from the late 1890s.

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Product Description: This text edition of liturgical poems of the synagogue poet Yehudah provides a unique corpus of Hebrew compositions based on manuscript fragments from the Genizah collection. Yehudah's poetry reflects the importance of Hebrew poetry from the liturgy of the synagogue in early Palestinian Judaism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"[Ravikovitch’s] song is both ancient and new, and it is unutterably poignant." ―Stanley Kunitz In poems about fathers and daughters, men and women, kings and their subjects, the precarious position of women and the plight of Palestinians under the Occupation, Dahlia Ravikovitch articulates the painful asymmetries of power. The extraordinary stylistic range of her poetry reveals her mastery of the verbal art. from “Clockwork Doll”I was a clockwork doll, but thenThat night I turned round and aroundAnd fell on my face, cracked on the ground,And they tried to piece me together again.Then once more I was a proper dollAnd all my manner was nice and polite.But I became damaged goods that night,A fractured twig poised for a fall.

Product Description: In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can open dramatic metaphorical and creative possibilities. In An Inch or Two of Time, Jordan Finkin shows how Jewish modernists of the early twentieth century had a distinct perspective on this innovative metaphorical vocabulary...read more

Product Description: Leon Weinberger draws on a wealth of material, much of it previously available only in Hebrew, to trace the history of Jewish hymnography from its origins in the eastern Mediterranean to its subsequent development in western Europe, Balkan Byzantium, Greece, and the Ottoman Empire...read more

Product Description: Moses Dar of Alexandria was the product of both Arab courtly culture and Jewish civilization, and certainly the most gifted poet of medieval Karaism. This collection of his work reflects the tension and blend between his two contrasting backgrounds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: One of Israel's most celebrated poets, Tuvia Ruebner has been awarded every major literary prize in Israel, including the Prime Minister's Prize and the prestigious Israel Prize (2008), and numerous awards in Germany, including the Konrad Adenauer Literature Prize (2012)...read more