Tag: Poetry

In celebrating 100 years since the birth of Jewish war hero and poet Hannah Senesh (Szenes), the National Library of Israel has digitized dozens of items from her recently acquired archive, many of them never previously...

Chester Kallman, a poet and librettist who became the great W. H. Auden’s lifelong companion, was born in Brooklyn on this date in 1921. The two of them wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky’s The...

(1831–1892), the most important Hebrew poet of the nineteenth century; leading figure of the Russian Haskalah movement. Yehudah Leib Gordon was born in Vilna in 1831 and started writing Hebrew poetry at a young age. He soon became close...

In 1944, the Jewish, Hungarian-born paratrooper Hannah Senesh (Szenes) was parachuted into occupied Europe by the British in a desperate attempt to save Hungarian Jews from the Nazi death camps. Captured, tortured and executed...

Natan Zach, an Israeli writer who had a major impact on the development of modern Hebrew poetry, died on Friday at the age of 89. Zach published more than two dozen books, including several that...

Italian Jewish chemist Primo Levi survived a year at Auschwitz against all odds. He is best known for his moving memoirs 'If This Is a Man' and 'The Periodic Table.' Synopsis Born on July 31, 1919,...