Myers - Man Off A White Horse

From the Back Cover: Here is a monumental achievement in verse-the most representative work of 400 modern Jewish poets from over 40 nations, ranging from the U.S. and Canada to Israel and Eastern Europe to surprising corners of the world like Cuba, Wales, and Sri Lanka. The poems are expertly translated from more than 20 languages, such as Hebrew, Yiddish, French, German, and Russian, as well as authentically Jewish hybrid languages like Judeo-Romanesque and Judezmo. From Allen Ginsbergs Kaddish to Yehuda Amichais Lament, this is the most comprehensive collection of Jewish poets ever assembled--a vibrant expression of a great peoples rapture and agony, history and lore.;Erev shabbos -- Marc Kaminsky ; Kaddish -- Allen Ginsberg.;New Years Eve in solitude -- Wandering Jew -- White blossoms -- Theresienstadt poem -- I am here / Robert Mezey -- Adam in love -- Abraham -- Jacob and the angel / Stephen Mitchell -- Elegy for my father / Howard Moss -- God poem -- Two fishermen -- Scroll -- Apocrypha / Stanley Moss -- Minyan -- Day of Atonement / Jack Myers -- Eves advice to the children of Israel -- Doves / Joachim Neugroschel -- Desert march -- Tree of life is also a tree of fire -- Joining / Gerda Norvig -- If it all went up in smoke / George Oppen -- Wonder-teacher -- Riddle / Cynthia Ozick -- I want to write a Jewish poem / Gary Pacernick -- Yom Kippur -- After reading Nelly Sachs -- At the Jewish Museum -- Pears -- Elsewhere / Linda Pastan -- Aleph -- Gimel -- Hai / Stuart Z Perkoff -- O, beautiful they move -- Night poem in an abandoned music room -- Poem for Anton Schmidt -- Farewell to Europe -- Ode on a decision to settle for less -- Poem / William Pillin -- King of Ai -- Begetting of Cain -- On the photograph of a man I never saw / Hyam Plutzik -- Meditation -- Mediation -- Lamentation -- Meditation / Carl Rakosi -- Poor shames of Berditchev -- Davening / Rochelle Ratner -- Hebrew of your poets, Zion -- Jacob -- Luzzato -- Out of the strong -- Sweetness -- Lament of the Jewish women for Tammuz -- Dew -- Body is like roots stretching -- Raisins and nuts -- TeDeum -- Autobiography: Hollywood -- Letter / Charles Reznikoff -- Cantors dream before the high holy days / Martin Robbins -- Shekhina and the Kiddushim -- Paths of prayer -- Kashrut -- Beginning and an end -- Habakkuk / Edouard Roditi -- Maps to nowhere -- Rain has fallen on the history books / David Rosenberg -- First wedding in the world -- Violin tree / Joel Rosenberg -- Alphabet came to me -- Letter to Paul Celan in memory / Jerome Rothenberg -- Akiba / Muriel Rukeyser -- Journey with hands and arms -- Fathers / Benjamin Saltman -- Yahrzeit / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- Abraham -- Sarah -- Jacob / Delmore Schwartz -- Our angels -- Gathering the sparks -- Adams dream -- Abraham in Egypt -- Iscah -- New year for trees -- Eve -- Prayers -- Vessels -- Song -- These two -- Blessing of the firstborn -- Shira -- Psalm / Howard Schwartz -- Six hundred thousand letters -- Lines for the ancient scribes -- Exodus -- Riding westward -- For the Yiddish singers in the Lakewood Hotels of my childhood -- Like a beach -- Musical shuttle / Harvey Shapiro -- Alphabet -- 151st Psalm -- Jew / Karl Shapiro -- Shechem -- Dawn / David Shevin -- Binni the meshuggener -- Snow in the city -- Crippler / Danny Siegel -- Hair / Maxine Silverman -- What is a Jewish poem? -- Benediction -- Instructions for the Messiah / Myra Sklarew -- Germination / Arlene Stone -- Where Babylon ends / Nathaniel Tarn -- Invention of zero -- Birth -- Change of life / Constance Urdang -- Translating -- Dan, the dust of Masada is still in my nostrils -- Mediterranean -- Watching the sun rise over Mount Zion / Ruth Whitman -- Blessing / Melvin Wilk -- Hebrew letters in the trees / J Rutherford Willems -- Spit / C K Williams -- Rachels lament -- Sabbatical -- Circumcision / Linda Zisquit -- From the head -- Voice out of the tabernacle -- Expounding the Torah / Louis Zukofsky -- England: -- Cemetery in New Mexico -- Fortunate fall -- Dying -- Mourning and Melancholia / A Alvarez -- Marriage -- Celan -- Cloisters -- Book of mysteries -- Crossing / Anthony Barnett -- Alchemical cupboard / Asa Benveniste -- Mandelstam -- Angels / Richard Burns -- Lilith -- Gods language -- Hebrew Sibyl -- Sibyl of the waters / Ruth Fainlight -- Against winter -- Under stone -- Dad -- Survivors / Elaine Feinstein -- At Staufen -- Search / Michael Hamburger -- Axioms -- Argument against metaphor -- In memoriam Paul Celan -- Fugato (Coda) / Gad Hollander -- Genesis / Lotte Kramer -- Princess who fled to the castle -- Lament for Azael -- Midrash on Hamlet -- Selichos / Francis Landy -- If I forget thee -- To T S Eliot / Emanuel Litvinoff -- Hebrew script (eight poems) / Tali Lowenthal -- Tree of knowledge -- In the old Jewish cemetery, Prague, 1970 / Edward Lowbury -- Noah in New England -- Nausicaa with some attendants -- Horizon without landscape / Tom Lowenstein -- Cordoba / Asher Mendelssohn -- Departure / Jeremy Robson -- God -- Break of day in the trenches -- Chagrin -- Dead mans dump -- Saul -- Jew -- Returning, we hear the larks -- Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian hordes / Isaac Rosenberg -- Ashkelon -- Hands up -- Evening of the rose -- Dubrovnik poem (Emilio Tolentino) -- Prayer for Kafka and ourselves -- Ancient of days / Anthony Rudolf -- Death of a son -- Coldness -- Word about freedom and identity in Tel Aviv -- It says -- Jerusalem -- Resting place / Jon Silkin -- Anniversary -- Murder of a community -- Walking home at night / Daniel Weissbort -- Canada: -- Story of Isaac / Leonard Cohen -- Hagar to Ishmael -- Kabbalist -- Freethinkers / Deborah Eibel -- Morning prayers of the Hasid -- Rabbi Levi Yitzhok / Phyllis Gotlieb -- In that drowning instant / A M Klein -- Jewish main street / Irving Layton -- In the first cave -- Locusts of silence -- Abraham Sutskever -- Yehuda Amichai -- Afternoons angel / Seymour Mayne -- Pedlar / Sharon Nelson -- Sarai / Joseph Sherman -- Survivors -- Field of night -- Desert stone / Miriam Waddington -- Israel: -- Psalm of the jealous God / Henry Abramovitch -- Dont show me / Ruth Beker -- Yetzer ha Ra -- Juggle of Myrtle Twigs / Edward Codish -- To a God unknown / David Eller -- Shir Maalot/a song of degrees / Richard Flantz -- Benediction -- Formations / William Freedman -- Sabbath / Rivka Fried -- Practice of absence -- Identity / Robert Friend -- Wonders -- Next year, in Jerusalem -- Looking for Maimonides: Tiberias -- New Graveyard: Jerusalem -- Leah -- Starting over -- Loving / Shirley Kaufman -- Adams death -- Ishmael -- Etude for voice and hand / Gabriel Levin -- Adam and Eve at the garden gate -- How to reach the moon / Marsha Pomerantz -- Jars -- Reb Hanina / Paul Raboff -- Bird song -- Unearthing / Betsy Rosenberg -- Ancestors / Harold Schimmel -- First love poem -- Thespian in Jerusalem -- Santa Caterina / Myra Glazer Schotz -- Dying under a fall of stars / Mark Elliott Shapiro -- Jacobs winning / Richard Sherwin -- Guide to Jerusalem -- Matronita / Dennis Silk -- Hollow flute -- Portrait of a widow / Avner Strauss -- Australia: -- Wandering Jews / Nancy Keesing -- I am a Jew / David Martin -- Chosen-Kalgoorlie, 1894 / Fay Zwicky -- South Africa: -- Of Thomas Traherne and the pebble outside -- Portrait of Prince Henry -- Sleeper -- Firebowl / Sydney Clouts -- Cry for a disused Synagogue in Booysens / Mannie Hirsch -- King Saul -- Radiance of extinct stars / Allan Kolski Horvitz -- Apocalypse / Jean Lipkin -- Encounter in Jerusalem -- Judean Summer -- Aleph Bet / Fay Lipshitz -- Scotland: -- Poem for my grandfather -- Yiddish poet -- Isaac -- Painting / A C Jacobs -- Wales: -- Song for Dov Shamir -- Tales of Shatz / Dannie Abse -- India: -- Totem -- Lamentation -- How my father died / Nissim Ezekiel -- Sri Lanka: -- Holocaust 1944 -- Auschwitz from Colombo / Anne Ranasinghe --Other Languages: -- Introduction to Book IV / Edouard Roditi -- Amharic: -- Rusted chain / Yosef Damana ben Yeshaq -- Arabic: -- Pleading voices / Shalom Katav -- Tree of hatred -- Melody -- Return / Shmuel Moreh -- Prostration -- Tomb / David Semah -- Mother -- To a cactus seller -- Prayers to liberty / Anwar Shaul.;General introduction -- 1: Hebrew: -- Introduction to Book I / Laya Firestone -- Tammuz -- This night -- Poem about your face -- To the elephants -- Spinning girl / Nathan Alterman -- Of three or four in a room -- Not like a cypress -- God has pity on kindergarten children -- On the day of atonement -- Shadow of the old city -- Jerusalem, Port City -- Sodoms sister city -- I am sitting here -- I think of oblivion -- Advice -- Lament -- I am a leaf -- Since then -- In the old city -- On the wide stairs -- Town I was born in -- Lay your head on my shoulder / Yehuda Amichai -- Nothingness / Aharon Amir -- Sarah -- Story of Abraham and Hagar / Edna Aphek -- Room poems -- Dawn of Jaffa pigeons -- Houses, past and present / Eli Bachar -- Monasteries lift gold domes -- Distance spills itself / Yocheved Bat-Miriam -- Tabernacle of peace -- Sequence of generations -- Love song / Hayim Beer -- Jerusalem in the snow -- Angel Michael / Anath Bental -- I didnt know my soul -- Blessed are those who sow and do not reap -- Psalm / Avraham Ben-Yitzhak -- When the days grow long -- After my death -- Summer night -- I didnt find light by accident -- Footsteps of spring -- My song -- I scattered my sighs to the wind -- Sea of silence exhales secrets -- Place me under your wing / Hayim Nachman Bialik -- Beginnings -- Birds nest -- Buying a shop on Dizengoff / Erez Biton -- Condition -- Authors apology / T Carmi -- My father -- One who is missing / Abraham Chalfi -- Like a field waiting -- Childless witch -- Witch going down to Egypt / Raquel Chalfi -- Same dream -- Unraveled thought -- Wife of Kohelet / Shlomit Cohen -- Dwelling -- Small bones ache -- Among the pine trees -- Nightingales are not singing / Moshe Dor -- Words that speak of death -- Who will give cover? -- Samson rends his clothes / Anadad Eldan -- Eve -- Abishag / Jakov Fichman -- Isaac -- Moses -- Joshuas face -- Saul -- My brother was silent -- Samson -- Seeds of lead -- Birth / Amir Gilboa -- Absalom -- Pomegranate tree in Jerusalem -- Flying letters / Zerubavel Gilead -- Heavenly Jerusalem, Jerusalem of the Earth -- God once commanded us -- From my mothers home -- Toward myself -- Answer / Leah Goldberg -- With my God, the Smith -- Like a woman -- Great sad one -- How it is -- Valley of men -- There is a box -- Hour -- On the pole -- Song at the skirts of heaven / Uri Zvi Greenberg -- Short eulogy -- Not going with it / Zali Gurevitch -- Isaac -- Anath -- My Samsons -- Nine men out of a Minyan -- On my return -- Rain -- Latter purification / Haim Guri -- Do not accompany me / Shimon Halkin -- Talk to me, talk to me -- It was gentle -- Whenever the snakes come / Hedva Harkavi -- Green refrain -- Time -- Nocturnal thoughts -- Classic idyll / Avraham Huss -- Four of them -- Chambers of Jerusalem / Yehuda Karni -- First one drew me -- Radiant is the world soul -- When I want to speak / Rav Abraham Isaac Kook -- Near -- Observation at dawn -- I dont know if Mount Zion / Abba Kovner -- Massada / Yitzhak Lamdan -- On the margins of a poem -- Riddle of night / Jiri Mordecai Langer -- Old story / Rena Lee -- Purity -- Language of ancients -- Upon the lake / Hayim Lenski -- Phoenix -- White bird -- Akedah / Matti Megged -- Snow in Jerusalem -- After the war -- Like a pearl -- My mother / Hayim Naggid -- Last ones -- Tower -- Instructions for crossing the border -- Scrawled in pencil in a sealed railway car -- Draft of a reparations agreement -- Brothers -- Autobiography -- Grand Duke of New York / Dan Pagis -- Mediterranean / Israel Pincas -- End of summer -- Young virgins plucked suddenly / Berl Pomerantz -- Words of oblivion and peace -- Rains on the island -- From Jerusalem: a first poem -- Arriving -- Autumn music -- Like David -- Parting -- Memory of another climate -- Summing up -- Giving up on the shore -- Late manuscript at the Schocken Institute -- Fishermen -- Lesson in translation -- Letter out of the gray -- Biographical note / Gabriel Preil -- Folk tune -- Serenade for two poplars / Esther Raab -- Rachel -- My white book of poems -- Revolt -- My dead -- Perhaps / Rachel -- Lament / Yonathan Ratosh -- Dress of fire -- Surely you remember -- Requiem after seventeen years / Dahlia Ravikovitch -- Moses on Mount Nebo / Abraham Regelson -- I am a king / I Z Rimon -- Beginning -- I am like a book / David Rokeah -- Young deer/dust -- Treason of sand -- Song / Hemda Roth -- Among iron fragments -- First days -- I left -- Document / Tuvia Ruebner -- In the forest -- In the garden of the Turkish consulate -- Raya Brenner -- Elegy / Pinhas Sadeh -- Splendor / Shin Shalom -- Trembling -- Expectation -- Resurrection of the dead -- Drunkenness of pain -- Sea-games -- Akedah -- Song of the closing service / Aliza Shenhar -- Prayer -- Stars on Shabbat -- Pledge -- New Genesis -- Dress me, dear mother / Avraham Shlonsky -- Diary of the sailors of the North / David Shulman -- Abraham -- Proust on Noah / Eisig Silberschlag -- Childrens song -- In Jerusalem are women -- Forty years peace -- To Xanadu, which is Beth Shaul / Arye Sivan -- With a book at twilight -- World is not a fenced-off garden -- Donkey will carry you / Jakov Steinberg -- His mothers love -- Grave at Cassino / Noah Stern -- Lament for the European exile -- In the discreet splendor -- On the path -- Voice in the dark / A L Strauss -- Trees once walked and stood -- My soul hovers over me -- Life of hard times / Joshua Tan Pai -- Man is nothing but -- Grave -- Sauls song of love -- Death of Tammuz / Shaul Tchernichovsky -- Seal of fire -- Foul water -- Hidden bow -- Your presence / Mordecai Temkin -- Cage -- Salmon cycle -- Deserted shrine / Avner Treinin -- Jerusalem -- In the cabinet -- Training on the shore -- Midnight and ten minutes -- Need to love -- Parting -- Lullaby / Shlomo Vinner -- Days were great as lakes -- Our childhood spilled into our hearts -- How can I see you, love -- Black flags are fluttering -- Plain, humble letters -- When I was growing up -- In fine, transparent words -- Now I have forgotten all / David Vogel -- Cradle song -- When the angels are exhausted -- Death -- She was always here / Yona Wallach -- One goes with me along the shore -- If my hands were mute -- Somewhere you exist -- I love what is not / Manfred Winkler -- Poem on the Jews -- Poem on the guilt -- Poem on our mother, our mother Rachel / Avot Yeshurun -- Another poem on Absalom -- South wind -- Silver turns into night / Nathan Yonathan -- When God first said -- Quiet light of flies -- To be a master in your house -- When the last riders -- In this deep darkness -- Short winter tale -- Perhaps its only music -- Peaceful song -- As sand -- Against parting -- No -- Listening to her -- Foreign country / Natan Zach -- I stood in Jerusalem -- Moon is teaching bible -- In the dry riverbed -- With my grandfather -- Light a candle / Zelda -- At Dantes grave -- Last / Ezra Zussman.;Part 2: Yiddish: -- Introduction to Book II / Ruth Wise -- Light of the world -- Wandering chorus / B Alquit -- Deer -- Celan -- Pause a moment -- My true memory -- My strawlike hair -- Grain of moonlight / Asya -- Seismograph / Ephraim Auerbach -- Diaspora Jews -- Lifelong -- Round -- At night / Rachel Boimwall -- Pshytik -- City of light / Nahum Bomze -- Circus dancer / Celia Dropkin -- Mute city -- Prologue -- From life / Lazer Eichenrand -- In the beginning -- Even if / Rachel Fishman -- Castles -- White swan -- Madison Square / A Glanz-Leyeles -- Poet lives -- Mozart -- Ill find my self-belief -- In a ghetto -- Loyal sins -- Like weary trees -- Memorial poem -- Move on, Yiddish poet -- Evening bread -- Praying the sunset prayer / Jacob Glatstein -- Fire goes out -- Where rests the wind / Naftali Gross -- Just because -- Go throw them out -- Memento Mori -- Zlotchev, my home -- Considering the bleakness -- Isaac Leybush Peretz -- Thats our lot -- Sacco-Vanzetti / Moishe Leib Halpern -- On the way -- Cry of generations -- Windows / Mordechai Husid -- Im soaked through with you -- Longing -- My body -- Letter -- Sometimes I want to go up -- New dress -- Thirty-one camels -- Too late -- Put your word to my lips -- With poems already begun -- From here to there / Rachel Korn -- I just walk around, around, around -- Spring -- Summer -- Two -- Vilna / Moishe Kulbak -- Esau -- My fiddle / Leib Kwitko -- I have a big favor to ask you, brothers -- Parts -- Tuesday -- Of course I know -- Little pig / Zishe Landau -- Pyre of my Indian summer -- Winter -- In little hands -- Plum -- Psalmodist -- From the crag -- They / Mani Leib -- How did he get here? -- Two times two is four -- Through the whole long night -- I hear a voice / H Leivick -- Clocks -- Drunken streets / Malka Locker -- Rachel goes to the well for water -- Abishag writes a letter home -- Alone -- Autumn -- Abraham and Sarah -- On the road there stands a tree -- Strange guest -- Dying thief -- Fairy tales -- Evening -- Under the ruins of Poland -- Dark hand / Itzik Manger -- Ancient murderess night -- Years -- My kin talk -- Homecoming -- Mother Earth / Anna Margolin -- In the last flicker of the sinking sun -- Your burnt-out body / Peretz Markish -- In lifes stable -- Night visitors -- Yet / Kadya Molodovsky -- What will remain after me? -- Nation / Mendel Naigreshel -- In an alien place -- I often want to let my lines go -- I love the woods / Leib Neidus -- Twelve lines about the burning bush -- Poem-good or bad-a thing-with one attribute-flat -- Twilight thoughts in Israel -- Let us learn -- Verses written on sand -- Conscience / Melech Ravitch -- Family of eight -- What is the case in point? -- Newcomers -- Endless chain -- Girls from home / Abraham Reisen -- In disguise -- Im not rich -- At Gods command / Joseph Rolnik -- Birds are drowsing on the branches / Leah Rudnitsky -- Meditation / Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman -- Candle -- Rest / Jacob Isaac Segal -- Pictures on the wall -- I will go away -- Let us laugh / Zvi Shargel -- Where is justice? -- Shatness or uncleanliness -- Umbrella, the cane, and the broom -- Horse and the whip -- Bayonet and the needle / Eliezer Steinbarg -- Last fire -- Generations / Moishe Steingart -- Ezckiel / A N Stencl -- In vistas of stone -- What am I? -- French mood / Abo Stoltzenberg -- On my wandering flute -- Song for a dance -- Landscape -- Songs to a lady moonwalker -- Banks of a river -- How -- Song of praise for an ox -- Poetry -- Under the Earth -- Yiddish -- Toys -- Cartload of shoes -- To my child / Abraham Sutskever -- Lines to a tree -- Minor key -- To the divine neighbor / J L Teller -- At the well -- I say -- Thou shalt not -- Water without sound -- Love the ruins -- Songs of the priestess / Malka Heifetz Tussman -- Havdolah wine -- In the courtyard / Miriam Ulinover -- Sacrifice -- Dont say -- Messiah -- Encounter in Safed -- Melons / Moshe Yungman -- Dream about an aged humorist -- Text -- Empty apartment -- Ode to freedom / Aaron Zeitlin -- Remembering Lutksy -- Clothes -- My mothers shoes / Rayzel Zychlinska -- English: -- Introductions to Book III / Howard Schwartz and Anthony Rudolf -- United States: -- Scribe -- Hieroglyph -- Song of degrees -- Covenant / Paul Auster -- Good beasts -- Worm -- Grandfather -- Gas lamp -- Miklos Radnoti -- Paradise / Willis Barnstone -- Avenue Y -- Ancestors / Anita Barrows -- Getting lost in Nazi Germany -- Extermination of the Jews -- Israeli navy / Marvin Bell -- Desnos reading the palms of men on their way to the gas chambers / Stephen Berg -- In a dream ships hold -- Unveiling / Suzanne Bernhardt -- Paradise -- Noah -- Sacrifice -- Yom Kippur / Chana Bloch -- Life of the letters / Emily Borenstein -- Lamentations -- Ghetto twilight -- Family album / Alter Brody -- Isaac -- House in St Petersburg -- Talmudist / Stanley Burnshaw -- Grandfathers -- Percolating highway / Michael Castro -- Yom Kippur -- Letter catches up with me / Eric Chaet -- Eves birth / Kim Chernin -- From the dust / Elaine Dallman -- Labor -- Yom Kippur / Lucille Day -- Isaac and Esau -- Dark scent of prayer -- Under the shawl -- Zippora returns to Moses at Rephidim -- As I am my fathers -- Letters of the book / Rose Drachler -- Closed system -- Remember Sabbath days / Larry Eigner -- Shulamit in her dreams -- Modern Kabbalist -- Woman through the window / Marcia Falk -- Pripet marshes / Irving Feldman -- Lilith / Ruth Feldman -- Genealogy -- Lilith -- Cains song -- Lame angel -- Finders keepers -- Feeding the fire -- How things fall / Donald Finkel -- Listen to the bird -- Thoughts for my grandmother -- Crow, straight flier, but dark -- For Gabriel / Laya Firestone -- Kaddish / Allen Ginsberg -- Visit home / Joseph Glazer -- Dime call -- Recipe / Albert Goldbarth -- Eves song in the garden / Lynn Gottlieb -- Spirit-like before light / Arthur Gregor -- Lilith / Allen Grossman -- Into the book -- Bread of our affliction / Martin Grossman -- More light! More light! / Anthony Hecht -- Zohara -- NHR / Jack Hirschman -- Ziz / John Hollander -- Isaac / Barry Holtz -- 1905 -- Kaddish -- Dream -- Heart / David Ignatow -- Owl in the Rabbis barn -- Yahrzeit / Dan Jaffe -- Why I cant write my autobiography -- Pilpul / Rodger Kamenetz -- Erev Shabbos / Marc Kaminsky -- Waiting for Lilith / Jascha Kessler -- Sukkot / Sol Lachman -- Driftwood dybbuk -- At the Western wall -- Mirrors of Jerusalem / Barbara F Lefcowitz -- Fringes -- Panegyric / Harris Lenowitz -- Safed and I / Molly Myerowitz Levine -- Zaydee -- 1933 -- After -- Now it can be told -- Words -- Here and now -- On a drawing by Flavio / Philip Levine -- Home alone these last hours of the afternoon, dusk now, the Sabbath setting in, I sit back, and these words start welling up in me -- Friday night after bathing -- Freely, from a song sung by Jewish women of Yemen -- Judezmo writer in Turkey angry / Stephen Levy -- Inscape -- Tonight everyone in the world is dreaming the same dream -- Havdolah -- Creation of the child / Susan Litwack -- Two refugees / Mordecai Marcus -- Tell them Im struggling to sing with angels -- Eyes, the blood / David Meltzer -- Song of the bride -- Scholars wife / Susan Mernit -- Angels in the house -- Speak like rain -- Her true body -- Divination / Jerred Metz -- Garlic -- Dark birds -- When I came to Israel / Bert Meyers.;Czech: -- Wall / Ludvik Askenazy -- From the depths / Otakar Fischer -- Butterfly / Pavel Friedman -- In the cellars -- Inhabited emptiness / Jiri Gold -- Between life and death -- Just a while / Frantisek Gottlieb -- Questions / Dagmar Hilarova -- Dutch: -- Unity -- All is Gods -- Gods gifts -- Hanukah -- Sabbath / Jakov de Haan -- On the death of Sylvia Plath -- Yiddish -- Voice -- Commentaries on the song of songs -- Kinneret -- Nearer / Judith Herzberg -- We carry eggshells -- Under restless clouds -- Listening / Hanny Michaelis -- Old miniatures -- River / Leo Vroman -- French: -- Memory air -- Zealot without a face -- Never again -- Fable merchant / Charles Dobzynski -- Dead cities speak to the living cities / Edmond Fleg -- Lullaby for an emigrant -- By the waters of Babylon -- Wandering Jew -- Hertza -- Plain song / Benjamin Fondane -- Lilith -- Raziel -- Clandestine work -- Neila / Yvan Goll -- Condemned -- Song of the last Jewish child -- Song of the trees of the Black Forest -- Circular cry -- Song -- Pulverized screen -- Water -- Book rises out of the fire / Edmond Jabes -- Temple -- Word / Gustave Kahn -- Interior -- Paris by night / Joseph Milbauer -- Lullaby in Auschwitz -- Jew -- Salomon / Pierre Morhange -- Golem -- Windmill of evening -- Vigil -- Tribe searching / Shlomo Reich -- Pilgrimage to testour / Ryvel -- Drunken stones of Prague -- Stone and the blade of grass in the Warsaw Ghetto / David Scheinert -- Hear, O Israel! -- Pogroms -- Ancient law -- Nudities -- Poetics / Andre Spire -- Evening -- Mothers / Tristan Tzara -- Tree of death -- Struggle with the angel -- House of the living -- Light of Judea -- Phoenix of Mozart -- Every land is exile -- Destiny of the poet -- Song of occident -- Wanderer -- Poetry / Claude Vigee -- Quick and the dead -- Seven-league boots / Ilarie Voronca -- Decayed time -- Lean day in a convicts suit -- Prayer of little hope -- Evening in the walls / Jean Wahl -- German: -- My nightingale -- Father -- Jerusalem -- Passover -- Hasidic Jew from Sadagora -- Phoenix -- In Chagalls village -- Lamed-vow / Rose Auslander -- Lullaby for Miriam / Richard Beer-Hofmann -- Jewish child prays to Jesus / Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss -- I consider the tree -- Fiddler / Martin Buber -- Psalm -- In Prague -- Death fugue -- Ash-glory -- Cello entry -- In Egypt -- Tenebrae -- Zurich, zum Storchen -- Corona -- Hut window -- Just think -- Speck of sand -- Turn blind -- Over three nipple-stones / Paul Celan -- Catalogue -- Cologne -- Dreamwater / Hilde Domin -- Lamp now flickers / Alfred Grunewald -- End of the world -- Air vision -- Tohub / Jakov van Hoddis -- Old Jewish cemetery in worms -- Blue owl song / Alfred Kittner -- Intimations / Alma Johanna Koenig -- Woman poet -- Jewish woman -- Sea-monster / Gertrud Kolmar -- Abraham and Isaac -- Hagar and Ishmael -- Homesickness -- Abel -- Jacob -- Moses and Joshua -- Pharaoh and Joseph -- Saul -- Lord, listen / Else Lasker-Schuler -- Journey to the insane asylum -- Respose / Alfred Lichtenstein -- Of the beloved caravan -- Beast that rode the unicorn / Conny Hannes Meyer -- Chimera / Alfred Mombert -- Ahasuerus / Joseph Roth -- Burning sand of Sinai -- Hasidim dance -- O the chimneys -- O night of the crying children -- What secret desires of the blood -- To you building the new house -- One chord -- Chorus of the rescued / Nelly Sachs -- Memo -- Greeting from a distance / Hans Sahl -- Trial / Gershom Scholem -- When the day -- You move forward -- Burnt debris / Thomas Sessler -- In the open fields -- In the ghetto / Hugo Sonnenschein -- Seder, 1944 -- Amalek / Friedrich Torberg -- Exodus, 1940 / Alfred Wolfenstein -- Shekhina -- From Mount Nebo -- WeGo / Karl Wolfskehl -- Greek: -- Rebecca -- Dream -- Slender maid -- Your passing, fleet passing -- Epilogue / Joseph Eliyia -- Hungarian: -- Moses account / Milan Fuest -- Birth of a country -- Desert -- Conjuration / Agnes Gergely -- Dead girl -- Tree to flute / Anna Hajnal -- Psalm -- After an eclipse of the sun / Eugene Heimler -- New Ahasuerus / Jozsef Kiss -- Comet -- Emil Makai -- Hymn -- Computer -- Ray / Otto Orban -- Message -- Conversation / Gyorgy Raba -- Song -- I hid you -- Root -- Metaphors -- In your arms -- Fragment -- Letter to my wife -- Seventh eclogue -- Forced march -- Picture postcards / Miklos Radnoti -- Remembering -- Southeast ramparts of the Seine -- Wildfire / Judit Toth -- What is left? -- Catacombs -- Tambour -- Just this / Istvan Vas -- Italian: -- Childhood -- Lets talk, mother -- Equality, father! -- Sister Zahava -- Go, then -- Why would I have survived? / Edith Bruck -- Night -- Calm -- Fear -- For a voice that is singing -- Mother -- Recluse / Aldo Camerino -- For our soldiers who fell in Russia -- Gutter -- In memoriam I -- In memoriam II / Franco Fortini -- Lilith -- Shema -- For Adolf Eichmann / Primo Levi -- Bella and the Golem / Rossana Ombres -- Sleepless on a summer night -- Goat -- Three streets / Umberto Saba -- Judeo-Romanesque: -- Roman Roman -- Those Zionists -- One thing to take, another to keep / Crescenzo del Monte -- Judezmo: -- Desire / Isaac de Botton -- When I came to London / Rachael Castelete -- Eyes -- Mouth -- Breaking off from waiting -- Open Earth -- Remembering / Clarisse Nicoidski -- Polish: -- Anti-nostalgia -- Poplars -- Dead Sea -- Listening to Confucius / Henryk Grynberg -- Jews / Mieczyslaw Jastrun -- If God exists -- Wedding -- Cock -- Flood / Ewa Lipska -- Elegy -- Conrad -- Conversation with a countryman -- Jerusalem / Antoni Slonimski -- Gypsy bible -- Mother -- Jewboy -- Lodgers / Julian Tuwim -- Willows in Alma-Ata -- There is no place / Aleksander Wat -- Ars poetica -- Hotel -- Nike / Adam Wazyk -- To the Jews in Poland -- St Francis of Assisi and the miserable Jews -- On the Jewish Day of Judgment in the year 1942 (5703) -- Hymn about a spoonful of soup / Jozef Wittlin -- Voyage -- Winter journey -- Those betrayed at dawn -- Going to the north / Stanislaw Wygodski -- Romanian: -- Eighteen -- Gift hour / Maria Banus -- Blood -- Cripples -- Self-portrait -- All night long -- Like Gulliver / Nina Cassian -- Of Autumn / Veronica Porumbacu -- Russian: -- To a portrait of Lermontov -- Two -- House in Meudon / Margarita Aliger -- Jewish cemetery near Leningrad -- Pilgrims -- Verses on accepting the world -- Etude -- Monument to Pushkin -- To a tyrant -- Soho / Joseph Brodsky -- Mememto Vivendi -- Farewell ballad of poppies / Eva Brudne -- Vilna puzzle / Sasha Chorny -- Walking along the Sea of Galilee -- Woman from the Book of Genesis -- Haifa -- Safed -- Rosh Pina / Dovid Knut -- Children of Auschwitz / Naum Korzhavin -- To Boris Pasternak / Aleksandr Kushner -- Eden -- Flood -- Prayer / Lev Mak -- This night -- Like a young Levite -- Concert at the station -- Twilight of freedom -- Bitter bread -- Reed / Osip Mandelstam -- Little house in Lithuania / Samuel Marshak -- In memory of Francois Rabelais -- Whiteness -- Snow-girl / Yunna Moritz -- Babi Yar / Lev Ozerov -- Poem from The Revolution -- No sense grieving -- Escape -- Slow oxen -- Handful of ashes / Ilya Rubin -- God -- How they killed my grandmother -- Dreams of Auschwitz -- Burnt / Boris Slutsky -- Ancient custom -- Words from the window of a railway car / Anatoly Steiger -- Serbo-Croat: -- Beyond memory / Monny de Boully -- European night -- Inscription -- Cathedral / Stanislav Vinaver -- Slovak: -- Winter day -- To my father -- Scraps / Susannah Fried -- Slovene: -- Air -- Eclipse / Tomaz Salamun -- Spanish: -- Customs -- Knife -- Stranger / Juan Gelman -- Bar Mitzvah -- Jews in hell / Isaac Goldemberg -- Pre-positions / Jose Isaacson -- Addio a la mamma / Noe Jitrik -- Jerusalem / Ruben Kanalenstein -- Cleaning day -- Store in Havana -- My father, whos still alive / Jose Kozer -- Mask and the poem -- Dawn -- Who will stop his hand from giving warmth -- Tree of Diana -- Privilege -- Apart from oneself -- Vertigos or contemplation of something that is over / Alejandra Pizarnik -- Ladder has no steps -- Tongues of fire -- Violins in repose -- Ourobouros / Jorge Plescoff -- Sabbath -- To a young girl -- Prelude -- Reconciliation -- Elegy and Kaddish -- Moral ode / David Rosenmann-Taub -- Fish -- Coconut -- Lemon / Mario Satz -- Jewish cemetery / Cesar Tiempo -- Swedish: -- At the Jewish cemetery in Prague -- Solomon and Morolph, their last encounter / Oscar Levertin -- Smile at me -- Paths to God -- Who says -- God and nature -- Thirst / Musa Moris Farhi -- We are acrobats -- We fooled ourselves -- Call from the afterworld / Jozef Habib Gerez -- Acknowledgments -- Index of poets -- Index of translators.