March 2026
ISBN-13 9780878202492
Paper $39.95
E-book available
This Longing City
Modern Hebrew Poems of Jerusalem
edited and translated 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.