Monday, March 29, 2010

Poets and Warriors

 

Aryeh Tepper

Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873–1934) was the poet of Jewish national rebirth and a leading light of cultural Zionism. To be more precise, he was a power station. Composing poems, writing essays, founding journals, raising up the sparks of Israel's past, Bialik became an essential source of energy for Jewish cultural revival.  

Continue Reading "Poets and Warriors"  Aryeh Tepper,  Jewish Ideas Daily.  SAVE

Grand Things to Write a Poem On  Hillel Halkin,  Gefen.  An "autobiography" of Shmuel Hanagid in 64 poems, translated and introduced.  SAVE

Shmuel Hanagid  Peter Cole,  Princeton University Press.  Selected poems, including the lines cited above, in translation.  SAVE

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