“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus and “The Silver Platter” by Natan Alterman distill, reinforce, and hallow what makes each nation distinctive.
After Adam.
“The ever-resounding links of the golden chain.”
The history of Ḥad Gadya.
The silence of A.M. Klein.
Longfellow vs. Lazarus.
Lauded in Israel but unknown outside, Zelda’s poetry provides an alternative to the desacralized cosmos in which most of us live.
And his longtime collaborator, Hyman Hurwitz.
Chava Rosenfarb’s poetry by other means.
Samuel Greenberg.
An admirer of Marc Chagall and a muse to Bruno Schulz.
A great Yiddish poet’s past and future.
Post-Holocaust towns populated by biblical ghosts.
“Lava its seeds. Atoms/ Fermented forth primevally.”