The discovery of a large number of Hebrew poems that were written several hundred years ago and which throw light on the religious life of the Jewish communities in different parts of the Byzantine ...

Peter Cole is one of the foremost Jewish poets and translators in the English-speaking world. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, Cole has ...

only the slash of the sword could undo. I turned my back on you. and you, turning inward, saw nothing. Until suddenly, you opened up wide like a field in the wind and your voice burst forth from my ...

Chana Bloch, a major figure in American letters through her poetry, translations of Hebrew and Yiddish, and scholarship in English literature at Mills College, has died after a four-year battle with ...

JERUSALEM — Haim Gouri wrote of the terrible sacrifice of war, and of memory and camaraderie. A celebrated and often critical voice of Israel’s founding generation and its conscience, he also wrote of ...