This Longing City: Modern Hebrew Poems of Jerusalem

By: Rachel Tzvia Back

This anthology, translated, edited, annotated and introduced by Rachel Tzvia Back includes 77 Hebrew poems about Jerusalem, written by 41 modern Hebrew poets. The book is in a bilingual format, Hebrew originals facing Back's English renderings. The collection seeks to introduce to the English-language reader a significant and varied range of Jerusalem poems beyond (though inclusive of) Amichai. Representing almost 100 years of poetic output --from the 1930s until today--and charged with the intense history of these years, this collection both enriches and complicates conventional representations of Jerusalem.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878202498
• ISBN13: 9780878202492
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.2"