SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

Over 40 years publishing poetry of Jewish Reference

Vol XVI/II (1997)

Israel: A Jubilee (Guest Editor: Stanley F. Chyet)

Table of contents:

Section Author Title Page
By Way of Introduction 3
CONTENTS Natan Zach Give Me What a Tree Has 5
Haim Gouri Inheritance 6
Aryeh Sivan Knowing Joseph 7
Aryeh Sivan Something Else Touching Joseph 9
Meir Wieseltier Saul Reenthroned 10
Kadia Molodovski Jerusalem 11
Marie Syrkin Israel: 1948/David 13
Natan Alterman The Silver Platter 14
Yitzhak Laor Citizen of the World 16
Dan Pagis Strange Burial 17
T. Carmi Today They Told Me 18
Zelda Then My Soul Cried Out 19
Yehuda Amichai from Songs of the Land of Zion Jerusalem 20
Ehud Manor Somebody 22
Yona Wallach The House Is Empty 23
Yitshak Patish A Smile of Promise 24
Leah Schweitzer Zealot 25
Ory Bernstein Memories of Her Friend Who Died 26
Rachel Chalfi Winter in Jerusalem 27
Erez Biton At the School for the Blind in Jerusalem 28
Baruch Link Words Speak 29
Haim Gouri Poem 31
Havah Pinhas Kohen A Mother's Early Morning Prayer 32
Abba Kovner Let There Be No Flaw in His Prayer 34
Shulamit Grossberg A Prayer 35
Abba Kovner The Scientists Are Mistaken 36

A pdf of the table of contents from the original issue is available here.