Israeli poetry

Baby Oriental (YouTube screenshot)
Now trending: Orientalism for babies
Most of the world is not familiar with post-colonial theory, and this album’s success is due to the audience’s naiveté. But forget politics; let me hug a baby and sing songs of nostalgia, anew. By Ilana Shazur Whoever chose the name “Baby Oriental 2” likely never heard of the term Orientalism. Had they heard of it,…
By Cafe Gibraltar June 4, 2014
How else to sweeten days? A poem-post
The Hebrew word “shir” means both poem and song, an indication that in ancient time, the two were one. Poetry was not written but recited, it was a musical art. We recite a lot these days, rhyming, chiming, putting words to a rhythm. We chant at protests and outside coutrooms. The result rarely sounds artistic…
By Yuval Ben-Ami January 2, 2011
A Mediterranean Pantoum and another little gem
This week I learned what a “pantoum” is. Yeah, yeah. Say what you want. Ignorant, blah blah. But better late than never, right? I learned what it was because I bought the book of a friend, Shachar-Mario Mordechai, who recently won a national poetry competition [Heb] and just published his first book of poems in Hebrew…
By Ami Kaufman October 13, 2010
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