Literary Currency
Simplicity, in poetry, is complicated. How do we translate the poet Rahel for English language readers? Read the full essay …
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A Fraternal Note (by James Reiss)
One brother emigrated to Israel, the other remained in the United States. Both became poets, searching for words the other …
A Cipher and His Songs
If you are a lover of Israeli music then you certainly know Avraham Halfi (1906–1980), though perhaps not by name. …
In the Crucifix Kingdom
In a dark Yiddish masterpiece that predated the Holocaust by two decades, the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg envisioned the annihilation …
