Hebrew

David Vogel: Autumn Nights (From Hebrew)

In Autumn Nights David Vogel Translated by A.Z. Foreman In autumn nights A leaf unseen falls in the forest And lies still to the earth. In s...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Hebrew , Natan Zach

Nathan Zach: I saw (From Hebrew)

I Saw By Nathan Zach Translated by A.Z. Foreman Click to hear me recite the Hebrew I saw a white bird up in the black night And knew that ti...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Female Poets , Hebrew , Sonnet

Leah Goldberg: Pine (From Hebrew)

Note: Pine trees, mind you, are especially versatile and can thrive in snow as well as sand. Russia as well as Israel. Also, note that "...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Bialik , Hebrew , Love Poems

Bialik: "Tonight, I lurked..." (From Hebrew)

"Tonight, I lurked..." By Hayyim Bialik Translated by A.Z. Foreman Click to hear me recite the original in Ashkenazi Hebrew Tonigh...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Bialik , Hebrew , Love Poems

Hayyim Bialik: At Flickering Sundown (from Hebrew)

At Flickering Sundown By Hayyim Bialik Translated by A.Z. Foreman Click here to hear me recite the poem in Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation At...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Gabriel Preil , Hebrew

Gabriel Preil: For The First Time (From Hebrew)

For The First Time By Gabriel Preil Translated by A.Z. Foreman In Memory of Helman Kushner The gravedigger's shirt went red in the sun, ...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Hebrew , Tuvia Rübner

Tuvia Rübner: Lullaby (From Hebrew)

Born in Czechoslovakia, Tuvia Rübner went to Israel as a child and completed his schooling there, growing up on a Kibbutz. He fought in the ...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Amir Gilboa , Hebrew

Amir Gilboa: Stormwind Evening (From Hebrew)

Stormwind Evening By Amir Gilboa Translated by A.Z. Foreman And still the sun reddens veins on the fronts of houses With the light of childr...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Female Poets , Hebrew

Esther Raab: "Today I am Modest" (From Hebrew)

"Today I am Modest" By Esther Raab Translated by A.Z. Foreman Today I am modest as an animal, Spread flush as rainwashed fields. W...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Hebrew

Abraham Shlonsky: Toil (From Hebrew)

Toil By Abraham Shlonsky Translated by A.Z. Foreman Click to hear me recite the original in Ashkenazi Hebrew Clothe me, goodly mother, in a ...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Female Poets , Hebrew , Holocaust , Rachel Bluwstein

Rachel Bluwstein: My Dead (From Hebrew)

Rachel Bluwstein was born in Viatka in Russia and began life as a Russian poet. While on a detour from a trip to Italy to study art at unive...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Hebrew , Tuvia Rübner

Tuvia Rübner: Sunflower (From Hebrew)

Sunflower By Tuvia Rübner Translated by A.Z. Foreman The wheel of fire without beginning The wheel of fire without an end The sword of flame...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Bialik , Hebrew

Bialik: On the Butchery of Beasts (From Hebrew)

In the spring of 1903, Kishinev was the site of a massive Pogrom which made all previous Russian Jew-hunts look like petty exercises. Bialik...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Gabriel Preil , Hebrew

Gabriel Preil: A First Poem from Jerusalem (From Hebrew)

A First Poem from Jerusalem By Gabriel Preil Translated by A.Z. Foreman Under these historical skies I am older than Abraham and all his sta...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Gabriel Preil , Hebrew

Gabriel Preil: Self-Courtesy (From Hebrew)

Self-Courtesy By Gabriel Preil Translated by A.Z. Foreman I was a boat, and well at anchor In a pink fishing village in Maine- And not some ...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Dalia Hertz , Female Poets , Hebrew

Dalia Hertz: A Day (From Hebrew)

A Day By Dalia Hertz Translated by A.Z. Foreman There are times when the days are ever so long. People wet as me stand in the yard. The tree...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Hebrew , Holocaust , Uri Tzvi Greenberg

Uri-Tzvi Greenberg: "Under the Tooth of their Plough" (From Hebrew)

Uri-Tzvi Greenberg began his career as an avant-garde Yiddish poet in Poland, before emigrating to Palestine in 1923 after he watched his ow...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Hebrew

Amir Or: Miracle (From Hebrew)

Miracle By Amir Or Translated by A.Z. Foreman Click to hear me recite the original Hebrew A moon is ripening in boughs of the poplar tree. D...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Hebrew , Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai: Jerusalem is a Port City (From Hebrew)

A prominent component of the following poem is the Western Wall (i.e. the Wailing Wall) which had finally become accessible to Jews after th...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Hebrew

Ronny Someck: Handcuffs- A Street Song (From Hebrew)

Handcuffs: A Street Song By Ronny Someck Translated by A.Z. Foreman Click to hear me recite the poem in Hebrew They cuffed his hands because...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021