From Ben Zion Katz of Chicago comes this email: “The noted Italian rabbi Leon de Modena (1571-1648) accomplished a linguistic tour de force by writing an octet, entitled Kina Sh’mor, that made sense ...

This stunning anthology gathers together the riches of poetry in Hebrew from The Song of Deborah to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the development of piyut, ...

In this study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts. He explores the world of the Jewish Diaspora, ...

The Hebrew Bible’s first word concerns time. That’s why the Rabbis teach us that G^d didn’t only create space and all that’s in it but also time itself. ‘Time is what keeps everything from happening ...