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Segal’s new book, Protest Poetry in Israel (due to be published in Hebrew), examines the developments that led to what he calls “the crystallization of Israeli political poetry.” Amir Akiva Segal says ...
A new and important translation aims to introduce readers to David Avidan, the most experimental poet in the history of Hebrew poetry, and a poet unjustly unknown to nearly all English-language ...
Philip M. Raskin, the writer of this critique on Bialik, has translated much of the late poet laureate’s poetry into English. Mr. Raskin is the editor of an anthology, Modern Jewish Poetry, during the ...
If the common background of Arab and Jew “were realized by the people at large greater amity would be shown by the Arabs of Palestine towards the Jews,” Dr. Israel Davidson, Professor of Medical ...
‘I closed the shutters and left. I left behind me the years and the flowers I planted along the sides of the path... from now, the day empties and the heart fills with longing.’ The 2020 Prize For ...
As an Israeli nature enthusiast and a student of the Hebrew Bible, every February I experience a double-shock to my senses and thoughts. This love affair with Israeli wildflowers figures prominently ...
Among the most original contemporary Israeli poets is Almog Behar, a Jerusalemite in his early 30s. His story “Ana Min Al-Yahoud” (“I am one of the Jews”), which won the Haaretz Short Story ...