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Product Description: Yair Mazor offers an illuminating history of Jewish poetry from Biblical times to the twentieth century. He provides biographies of nine poets—David Fogel, Rachel, Yehuda Amichai, Nathan Zach, Dalia Rabikovitz, Dan Pagis, Yair Horwitz, Yona Wollach, and Ronny Someck—and generous selections of their work in translation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9789653062030 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Yair Mazor offers an illuminating history of Jewish poetry from Biblical times to the twentieth century.

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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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9780815628491 | Syracuse Univ Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: This essay chronicles and analyzes the rise and fall of the prophetic poem in modern Hebrew literature.

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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)

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9789004119314 | Brill Academic Pub, July 1, 2000, cover price $333.00 | About this edition: Moses Dar of Alexandria was the product of both Arab courtly culture and Jewish civilization, and certainly the most gifted poet of medieval Karaism.

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Product Description: Hayim Nahman Bialik is considered by many to be one of the greatest Hebrew poets of modern times. This volume presents translations of a selection of his work. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Atar Hadari (editor) and Dan Miron (introduced by)

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9780815628149 | Syracuse Univ Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Hayim Nahman Bialik is considered by many to be one of the greatest Hebrew poets of modern times.

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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

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9781874774303 | Littman Library of Jewish, March 1, 1998, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: 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.

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9781874774372 | Littman Library of Jewish, April 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: 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.

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9780791443903 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $31.95

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9780827602663 | 1 edition (Jewish Pubn Society, November 1, 1986), cover price $24.50

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9780195129878, titled "Wine, Women, and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life" | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 18, 1999, cover price $67.00

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Product Description: Originally delivered as three lectures in the Efroymson Series at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, this text explores the complex relationship between modern Hebrew poetry and the Bible. The author looks at the fascination that biblical myth holds for the modern Israeli poet.

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9780814328811 | Wayne State Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Originally delivered as three lectures in the Efroymson Series at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, this text explores the complex relationship between modern Hebrew poetry and the Bible.
9780878200542 | Hebrew Union College Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Twentieth century Hebrew poetry engages the Bible in an ongoing battle.

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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

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9789652291899 | Gefen Books, July 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Shmuel Hanagid, poet, rabbi, Talmudic scholar, statesman, general and bon vivant was born in Cordoba, Spain, in 993 C.

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Aharon Shabtai, now in his late fifties, is the most important Israeli poet of his generation. This is his first book to be published in English.
By Peter Cole (trans) and Aharon Shabtai

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9781878818539 | Sheep Meadow Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Aharon Shabtai, now in his late fifties, is the most important Israeli poet of his generation.

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9781878818782 | Sheep Meadow Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $14.95

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9780195119626 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $30.00

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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)

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9789004112162 | Brill Academic Pub, July 1, 1998, cover price $162.00 | About this edition: 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.

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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
By Moshe Dor (editor) and Barbara Goldberg (editor)

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9780815605249 | Syracuse Univ Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Sixty-five Israeli poets write of their despair over war and their fierce craving for peace.

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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)

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9781878818683 | Sheep Meadow Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: Book by Wallach, Yona (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781878818546 | Sheep Meadow Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Wallach, Yona

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9780802841599 | Subsequent edition (Eerdmans Pub Co, January 1, 1997), cover price $18.00

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9780520205390 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, September 1, 1996, cover price $28.95

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A leading Israeli poet shares his thoughts about childhood, history, love, war, mercy, death, loneliness, and heritage

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9780060550011 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1986, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A leading Israeli poet shares his thoughts about childhood, history, love, war, mercy, death, loneliness, and heritage

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9780520275836 | Exp rev re edition (Univ of California Pr, February 15, 2013), cover price $24.95
9780520205383 | Rev exp su edition (Univ of California Pr, September 1, 1996), cover price $24.95
9780060960629, titled "Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai" | Reissue edition (Perennial, September 1, 1992), cover price $12.50 | About this edition: A leading Israeli poet shares his thoughts about childhood, history, love, war, mercy, death, loneliness, and heritage

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Product Description: Haim Gouri has been a major figure in Israeli literature since the War of Independence in 1948-1949. The poems collected in Words in My Lovesick Blood, in their original Hebrew and in English translation, introduce Gouri to English-speaking readers and reflect the range of Gouri's extraordinary achievement as a modernist poet from the 1940s to the 1990s...read more

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9780814325940 | Wayne State Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Haim Gouri has been a major figure in Israeli literature since the War of Independence in 1948-1949.

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