Poetry

Poetry from Jerusalem and beyond, for readers who love verse in English, Hebrew or both.

Within the Song to Live is a bilingual Hebrew-English selection of poems by the beloved Israeli poet Natan Yonatan, chosen by the poet himself, with a CD of his poems set to song. In Grand Things to Write a Poem On, Hillel Halkin translates the medieval Spanish poet Shmuel Hanagid. Dvora Waysman's Woman of Jerusalem pairs poems about the city with photographs, paintings and ancient artifacts.

Michel Shore's At the Window was written over one month in Jerusalem, Sinai and India, and Haim Schneider's Reflections offers poems in German and English.