This Longing City: Modern Hebrew Poems of Jerusalem (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780878202492)

This anthology, translated, edited, annotated and introduced by Rachel Tzvia Back includes 77 Hebrew poems about Jerusalem, written by 41 modern Hebrew poets. The book is in a bilingual format, Hebrew originals facing Back's English renderings. The collection seeks to introduce to the English-language reader a significant and varied range of Jerusalem poems beyond (though inclusive of) Amichai. Representing almost 100 years of poetic output --from the 1930s until today--and charged with the intense history of these years, this collection both enriches and complicates conventional representations of Jerusalem.

Author: Rachel Tzvia Back
ISBN-10: 0878202498
ISBN-13: 9780878202492
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2026
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.68lbs