Rachel Blaustein, Complete Poems

By Mildred Faintly and Rachel Blaustein

The first complete translation into English of Rachel Blaustein's complete poems. Rachel Blaustein's poetry, written in the dawn of the twentieth century, was the first great lyric expression of modern, living Hebrew. She made it possible for Jews to see themselves as a people with their own beauty --their own language, their own poetry, and (every people's right) their own country. Similar claims might be made for other modern Hebrew poets, but Rachel Blaustein did what no other poet even attempted. She restored to Hebrew literature the feminine element so long lost to Judaism and to the scriptural religions that developed from it. But the decisive argument for Rachel Blaustein's special greatness is this: we admire Bialik, we are delighted by Amichai, but Rachel--we love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D98LP4RV
• ISBN13: 9798332842283
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 339 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"