Rachel
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Rahel is rightfully considered the “founding mother” of modern Hebrew poetry by women. In the thousands of years that elapsed between the poetry of Deborah the Prophet and the early twentieth century, virtually no Hebrew poetry was composed by women. During the renaissance and flowering of modern Hebrew poetry, which produced such poets as Bialik and Tchernichowsky, there were no women poets. It was only in the 1920s that women began to write serious poetry, with intellectual intent, in Hebrew. Rahel, along with the other women poets who began to write and publish at this time--Esther Raab, Yocheved Bat-Miriam and Elisheva—initiated a trend that introduced new stylistic, linguistic and figurative possibilities into Hebrew poetry.
from and continue at: https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rahel-bluwstein |
בלילה בא המבשר
The messenger came in the night
And sat upon my bed: A fleshless, bone-protruding body And socket-sunken head. And then I knew the ancient bridge Had finally given way, That time had drooped its hands between Tomorrow and today. He menaced with a scrawny fist, He laughed with cruel delight "Oh yes indeed, this poem is The last you'll ever write." translation from: AZ Foreman http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2010/10/rachel-bluwstein-messenger-from-hebrew.html |
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Zelda
Religious lyrics infused with a visionary wildness, the poems of Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky—known to her readers simply as Zelda—are utterly unique, not part of any poetic school in Hebrew letters. So too, the poet herself was unique, in background and in personality, among modern Hebrew writers.
The daughter and granddaughter of prominent hasidic rabbis from the Habad dynasty, Zelda was an only child, born in Russia in 1914. When she was twelve, she immigrated with her family to Palestine where, shortly thereafter, her father and grandfather died. In Jerusalem, where the family had settled, Zelda attended a school for religious girls and later a teachers’ college. It was during her years at the college that she began to write and publish poetry. From and more at: https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/zelda |