What is a Jewish Poem?
What is a Jewish Poem? ''And if you have even more Jewish poems around, please let's add them to the pile being considered.'' What is a Jewish poem? Does it wear a yarmulka and tallis? Does...
...Does it only go to synagogue one day a year attaching the t'fillin like a tiny black stranger to its left arm...
...Little yeshiva bocher, little Jewish poem, are you a race or a nationality, waving your sidecurls, whispering piyyut to me in my sleep...
...I wonder— what is a Jewish poem...
...Does it open the stiff skins of the prayerbook to reveal the letters like blackened platelets twisting within...
...Linda Pastan Linda Pastan's poems have appeared in many journals...
...Barbaric...
...Little Jewish poem in your shtreimel hat, little grandfather sing to me, little Jewish poem come sing to me...
...You smile your old negotiator's smile and ask: but aren't all our houses burning...
...I say, and whom may I touch then, aren't we all dying...
...Myra Sklarew A Short History of Judaic Thought in the Twentieth Century The rabbis wrote: although it is forbidden to touch a dying person, nevertheless, if the house catches fire he must be removed from the house...
...her most recent collection is ASPECTS OF EVE (Liveright Press...
...Does it wave the lulav to and fro inside a plastic sukkah or recite the seven benedictions under the chupah...
...Does it live in the diaspora and yearn for homeland...
...Myra Sklarew lives in FJethesda, Maryland, and has written poetry for RESPONSE and numerous other journals...
Vol. 1 • June 1975 • No. 2
