SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

Over 40 years publishing poetry of Jewish Reference

Vol XXVI/I (2008)

Dryad at 40 (Guest Editor: Merrill Leffler)

Table of contents:

Section Author Title Page
Merrill Leffler Introduction by Guest Editor Merrill Leffler 4
MYRA SKLAREW what is a jewish poem 8
from the backyard of the diaspora 10
spinoza 11
holocaust 11
poetry 12
HERMAN TAUBE Yiddish 13
Kursk Offensive 15
I Am a Resurrected Golem 16
Dandelion 18
LINDA PASTAN On Watching the Israeli Wars on TV 19
Passover 20
A Symposium: Apples 22
RODGER KAMENETZ Curve of the Earth 24
Southern Crescent 25
Pilpul 27
Jewish History 27
Anyone 28
MOSHE DOR (translated with Barbara Goldberg) Destroyer in Eden 29
Abraham 30
At the Well 32
Household Idols 32
Stubbornness 33
Moses 33
Tongues 34
By the Rivers of Babylon 34
RONNIE SOMECK (translated by Moshe Dor and Barbara Goldberg) Hawadja Bialik 35
Snapshot 36
The Fire Stays in Red 37
Rice Paradise 37
Parachute Canopy 38
Sonya Burstein's Apple Strudels 38
Wheat 38
Biographies 39

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