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Songs from Bialik

Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik

Edited by Atar Hadari

Translated from the Hebrew by Atar Hadari

Paper $19.95 | 9780815606055Add to cart

Hardcover $39.95x | 9780815628149Add to cart

Subjects: poetry, Jewish studies, literature in translation, Hebrew literature

Description

Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) is considered Israel’s national poet and one of the greatest Hebrew poets of all time. Several of his poems, particularly his immensely popular children’s verse, were set to music and proved to be among the most popular twentieth-century Hebrew songs. An essayist, storyteller, translator, and editor, he had a unique ability to use fully the entire linguistic and conceptual inventory of the Hebrew language. Bialik’s career was a turning point in Hebrew literature, bringing Biblical Hebrew into a contemporary usage and forming the basis of its renewed vigor. His legacy remains embedded in modern Hebrew literature like an immovable foundation stone.

Atar Hadari’s new translation of Bialik’s major poetry fills a long-standing gap in English letters.

About the Author

Atar Hadari is a poet, playwright, translator, and essayist. His poems have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, American Poetry Review, Partisan Review, and many other journals, and his plays have been performed in New York, London, Boston, Los Angeles, and Provincetown.


Related Interest

Let the Words
Letters to America
H. N. Bialik and the Prophetic Mode in Modern Hebrew Poetry

Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

6 x 9, 236 pages

June 2000

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