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Poetry / Literature & Criticism / Jewish Studies

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Pain, Pining, and Pine Trees Contemporary Hebrew Poetry Yair Mazor illustrated by Nachum Gutman A comprehensive introduction to modern Hebrew and contemporary Israeli poetry in translation Yair Mazor offers an illuminating history of Jewish poetry from Biblical times to the twentieth century. He provides biographies of nine poets—David Fogel, Rachel, Yehuda Amichai, Nathan Zach, Dalia Rabikovitz, Dan Pagis, Yair Horwitz, Yona Wollach, and Ronny Someck—and generous selections of their work in translation. The book includes illustrations by Nachum Gutman. Yair Mazor is professor of Hebrew and Biblical literature and director of the Center for Jewish Studies, the Hebrew Studies Program, and the Certificate Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

May 2001 390 pp. 8 1/2 x 11 55 b/w illus.      ISBN 978-965-306-203-0 Cloth $34.95 s Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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