Jewish Poetry: The Historical Tradition in English

    JEWISH VOICES is proud to offer focused presentations on some of the outstanding poets who have dignified the English language even as they have expanded our awareness of the Jewish experience.   The work of the  poets chosen below, like that of others who might well have been selected, barely  appears in mainstream anthologies.
     Take advantage of our heritage!  Find out why these writers are wonderful!
The Beginnings

Emma Lazarus (1849-1887 ): Writing as a Jewish Woman in America
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918): Jewish Poet, British Soldier

Some of our Great Poets
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976): The City and Its Images
Karl Shapiro (1913-2000): Poems of a Jew (1958)
Adrienne Rich (1929- ): The Poet and the Political Activist