Description

Book Synopsis
Hebrew poetry written in response to the wars in which Israel was involved during the last fifty years.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Poems
  • 1948-1967
    • Prayer (Haiim Gouri)
    • The Death of the Man in the Field (Haiim Gouri)
    • Behold, Our Bodies are Laid Out (Haiim Gouri)
    • The Ones Forgotten (Haiim Gouri)
    • To the Memory of a Comrade (Hillel Omer)
    • Word from the Gray Soldiers (Hillel Omer)
    • A Squad in the Land (Hillel Omer)
    • Around the Campfire (Nathan Alterman)
    • The Silver Platter (Nathan Alterman)
    • Memorial (Uri Zvi Greenberg)
    • Splendor from the Splendid (Uri Zvi Greenberg)
    • Poem of Blessing (Uri Zvi Greenberg)
    • The Ones Living by Their Virtue Say (Uri Zvi Greenberg)
    • Hagomel (Uriel Ofeq)
    • And My Brother Was Silent (Amir Gilboa)
    • Forced March in Summer (Yehoshua Zafrir)
    • The Sappers (Haiim Hefer)
    • We Left Slowly (Haiim Hefer)
    • Eulogy (Moshe Tabenkin)
    • God Has Mercy on Kindergarten Children (Yehudah Amichai)
    • Two Poems About the First Battles (Yehudah Amichai)
    • Rain on the Battlefield (Yehudah Amichai)
    • An Anonymous Squad (Yehiel Mohar)
    • Between Sickle and Sword (Yehiel Mohar)
    • For the Fighters--A Lament (Ayin Tur-Malka)
    • Heralds of New Jerusalem (Ayin Tur-Malka)
    • Mirror of the Battle (Ayin Tur-Malka)
    • Memorial Service (Ayin Tur-Malka)
    • The Time and the Response (Nathan Alterman)
    • The Dust of Poems (Nathan Yonathan)
    • Without the Boy (Nathan Yonathan)
    • Into a Dead Zone (Mati Katz)
  • 1967-1973
    • On Silver Wings (Naomi Shemer)
    • Parade of the Fallen (Haiim Hefer)
    • The Paratroopers Are Weeping (Haiim Hefer)
    • In the Night (Karmela Lakhish)
    • Missing Out (Eli Alon)
    • If There Is a God (Eli Alon)
    • Leave-Taking (Eli Alon)
    • In The Mount of Final Repose (Eli Alon)
    • Always in Anguish (Eli Alon)
    • [I sat upon the ground] (Abba Kovner)
    • [My comrades] (Abba Kovner)
    • My Child Smells of Peace (Yehudah Amichai)
    • We Have No Unknown Soldiers (Yehudah Amichai)
    • Wildling Peace (Yehudah Amichai)
    • A Place of Fire (Zelda)
    • How Mucha Word Could Help (Zelda)
    • On a Stone Pillow (Haiim Gouri)
    • Setting-Up Camp (Yonathan Gefen)
    • Settlement (David Avidan)
    • Twenty Years in the Wadi (Dan Pagis)
    • When You Grow Up (Anadad Eldan)
    • Dead in a Bereft Horah (Yehiel Hazak)
    • Wake (Yehiel Hazak)
    • Military Call-Up (Meir Wieseltier)
    • Love is Progressing (Meir Wieseltier)
    • Return (Yoseph Sarig)
    • Memorial Day, 1969 (T. Carmi)
    • The Other Days (Haiim Hefer)
  • 1973-1982
    • The Young Dead Soldiers (Haiim Hefer)
    • Only 20 Years Old (Gideon Rosenthal)
    • On the Readiness for Sacrifice (Reuven ben Yoseph)
    • Around the Water Near the Birds (Yair Hurvitz)
    • Again a Drab Khaki Light is Coming Down: Elegy (Meir Wieseltier)
    • Military Funeral in the Heat of Day (T. Carmi)
    • [I saw you] (Yehiel Hazak)
    • Current Account (Haiim Gouri)
    • Since Then (Yehudah Amichai)
  • 1982-1991
    • From the Songs of the Land of Zion and Jerusalem (Yehudah Amichai)
    • Your Socks (Raiah Harnik)
    • And At Night (Raiah Harnik)
    • Coffins (Eli Alon)
    • Eulogy (Amichai Israeli)
    • Friends (Nathan Yonathan)
    • My Hand is Extended for the Peace of the Galilee (Ramy Ditzanny)
    • Legging Behind (Ramy Ditzanny)
    • A Brand Plucked from the Anti-Tank Fire (Ramy Ditzanny)
    • Complicated and Innovative Orthopedic Surgery (Ramy Ditzanny)
    • Piggy-Back (Ramy Ditzanny)
    • You Don't Kill Babies Twice (Dahlia Ravikovitch)
    • At a Time Like This (Alex L.)
    • On the Desire to be Precise (Natan Zach)
    • To Live in the Land of Israel (Aryeh Sivan)
    • Unpleasantness During a Memorial Service (Aryeh Sivan)
    • To Wither like Weeds in an Easterly Wind (Aryeh Sivan)
    • Concerning the Rehabilitation of the Disabled from the Wars of Israel (Aryeh Sivan)
    • Teacher of Defeated Hebrew Language (Eitan Kalinski)
    • 1936-1986 (Eitan Kalinski)
  • 1991-1994
    • A Siren of Love (Asher Reich)
    • War Night 6 (Ilan Sheinfeld)
    • At Nightfall, 11/27/91 (Pinhas Sadeh)
    • Like Beirut (Haiim Gouri)
  • Notes
  • Biographical Information
  • Bibliography
  • Author Index
  • About Esther Raizen

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/1996
      ISBN13: 9780292770713, 978-0292770713
      ISBN10: 0292770715

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Hebrew poetry written in response to the wars in which Israel was involved during the last fifty years.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Introduction
      • Poems
      • 1948-1967
        • Prayer (Haiim Gouri)
        • The Death of the Man in the Field (Haiim Gouri)
        • Behold, Our Bodies are Laid Out (Haiim Gouri)
        • The Ones Forgotten (Haiim Gouri)
        • To the Memory of a Comrade (Hillel Omer)
        • Word from the Gray Soldiers (Hillel Omer)
        • A Squad in the Land (Hillel Omer)
        • Around the Campfire (Nathan Alterman)
        • The Silver Platter (Nathan Alterman)
        • Memorial (Uri Zvi Greenberg)
        • Splendor from the Splendid (Uri Zvi Greenberg)
        • Poem of Blessing (Uri Zvi Greenberg)
        • The Ones Living by Their Virtue Say (Uri Zvi Greenberg)
        • Hagomel (Uriel Ofeq)
        • And My Brother Was Silent (Amir Gilboa)
        • Forced March in Summer (Yehoshua Zafrir)
        • The Sappers (Haiim Hefer)
        • We Left Slowly (Haiim Hefer)
        • Eulogy (Moshe Tabenkin)
        • God Has Mercy on Kindergarten Children (Yehudah Amichai)
        • Two Poems About the First Battles (Yehudah Amichai)
        • Rain on the Battlefield (Yehudah Amichai)
        • An Anonymous Squad (Yehiel Mohar)
        • Between Sickle and Sword (Yehiel Mohar)
        • For the Fighters--A Lament (Ayin Tur-Malka)
        • Heralds of New Jerusalem (Ayin Tur-Malka)
        • Mirror of the Battle (Ayin Tur-Malka)
        • Memorial Service (Ayin Tur-Malka)
        • The Time and the Response (Nathan Alterman)
        • The Dust of Poems (Nathan Yonathan)
        • Without the Boy (Nathan Yonathan)
        • Into a Dead Zone (Mati Katz)
      • 1967-1973
        • On Silver Wings (Naomi Shemer)
        • Parade of the Fallen (Haiim Hefer)
        • The Paratroopers Are Weeping (Haiim Hefer)
        • In the Night (Karmela Lakhish)
        • Missing Out (Eli Alon)
        • If There Is a God (Eli Alon)
        • Leave-Taking (Eli Alon)
        • In The Mount of Final Repose (Eli Alon)
        • Always in Anguish (Eli Alon)
        • [I sat upon the ground] (Abba Kovner)
        • [My comrades] (Abba Kovner)
        • My Child Smells of Peace (Yehudah Amichai)
        • We Have No Unknown Soldiers (Yehudah Amichai)
        • Wildling Peace (Yehudah Amichai)
        • A Place of Fire (Zelda)
        • How Mucha Word Could Help (Zelda)
        • On a Stone Pillow (Haiim Gouri)
        • Setting-Up Camp (Yonathan Gefen)
        • Settlement (David Avidan)
        • Twenty Years in the Wadi (Dan Pagis)
        • When You Grow Up (Anadad Eldan)
        • Dead in a Bereft Horah (Yehiel Hazak)
        • Wake (Yehiel Hazak)
        • Military Call-Up (Meir Wieseltier)
        • Love is Progressing (Meir Wieseltier)
        • Return (Yoseph Sarig)
        • Memorial Day, 1969 (T. Carmi)
        • The Other Days (Haiim Hefer)
      • 1973-1982
        • The Young Dead Soldiers (Haiim Hefer)
        • Only 20 Years Old (Gideon Rosenthal)
        • On the Readiness for Sacrifice (Reuven ben Yoseph)
        • Around the Water Near the Birds (Yair Hurvitz)
        • Again a Drab Khaki Light is Coming Down: Elegy (Meir Wieseltier)
        • Military Funeral in the Heat of Day (T. Carmi)
        • [I saw you] (Yehiel Hazak)
        • Current Account (Haiim Gouri)
        • Since Then (Yehudah Amichai)
      • 1982-1991
        • From the Songs of the Land of Zion and Jerusalem (Yehudah Amichai)
        • Your Socks (Raiah Harnik)
        • And At Night (Raiah Harnik)
        • Coffins (Eli Alon)
        • Eulogy (Amichai Israeli)
        • Friends (Nathan Yonathan)
        • My Hand is Extended for the Peace of the Galilee (Ramy Ditzanny)
        • Legging Behind (Ramy Ditzanny)
        • A Brand Plucked from the Anti-Tank Fire (Ramy Ditzanny)
        • Complicated and Innovative Orthopedic Surgery (Ramy Ditzanny)
        • Piggy-Back (Ramy Ditzanny)
        • You Don't Kill Babies Twice (Dahlia Ravikovitch)
        • At a Time Like This (Alex L.)
        • On the Desire to be Precise (Natan Zach)
        • To Live in the Land of Israel (Aryeh Sivan)
        • Unpleasantness During a Memorial Service (Aryeh Sivan)
        • To Wither like Weeds in an Easterly Wind (Aryeh Sivan)
        • Concerning the Rehabilitation of the Disabled from the Wars of Israel (Aryeh Sivan)
        • Teacher of Defeated Hebrew Language (Eitan Kalinski)
        • 1936-1986 (Eitan Kalinski)
      • 1991-1994
        • A Siren of Love (Asher Reich)
        • War Night 6 (Ilan Sheinfeld)
        • At Nightfall, 11/27/91 (Pinhas Sadeh)
        • Like Beirut (Haiim Gouri)
      • Notes
      • Biographical Information
      • Bibliography
      • Author Index
      • About Esther Raizen

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