The poem was penned by Ber Oppenheimer, a prominent resident of Pressburg and a talmid chacham who authored Me Be'er, a sefer published in Vienna four years after the coronation.

For the idea of love, biblical Hebrew has precious few synonyms. Yet the Hebrew of the Bible can communicate a rich sensation ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

The texts, printed here in both English and Hebrew, are either short stories or poems, and range from "old" classics by the best-known writers in Hebrew of the first decades of the 20th century, such ...