Poetry
Sigmund Freud over the Holy One of Israel.
The German-Jewish poet embraced “the Great Aristophanes of Heaven.”
“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus and “The Silver Platter” by Natan Alterman distill, reinforce, and hallow what makes each nation distinctive.
Countering ignorance and denial in India.
Uriel Birnbaum.
Kadya Molodowsky’s “humor, irony, and deeply rooted sense of Jewishness.”
The language of Paul Celan.
“This is the day that the Lord made; we shall exult and rejoice in it.”
After Adam.
“The ever-resounding links of the golden chain.”
The history of Ḥad Gadya.
The silence of A.M. Klein.
Longfellow vs. Lazarus.
Lauded in Israel but unknown outside, Zelda’s poetry provides an alternative to the desacralized cosmos in which most of us live.