Jewish Studies

Literature and Poetry

Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers

Katja Garloff

Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust.

And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women’s Writing

Wendy I. Zierler

A feminist study of the beginnings of modern Hebrew women’s writing.

The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda

Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Marcia Falk

The first English translation of Israeli poet Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky’s richly spiritual and long-honored work.

The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself

A New and Updated Edition

Edited by Stanley Burnshaw, T. Carmi, Susan Glassman, Ariel Hirschfield, and Ezra Spicehandler

A collection of modern Hebrew poetry that presents the poems in the original Hebrew, with an English phonetic transcription.

“Loosen the Fetters of Thy Tongue, Woman”: The Poetry and Poetics of Yona Wallach

Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen

A critical study of the poetry of maverick Israeli poet Yona Wallach.

Between Snow and Desert Heat: Russian Influences on Hebrew Literature, 1870–1970

Rina R. Lapidus

By locating and examining textual parallels in the works of both the influencing and the influenced authors, Lapidus illuminates similarities between Russian and Hebrew writers.