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May 4, 2017

Two Great Hebrew Poets Whose Faces Will Be on Israeli Currency

Poems of the land of Israel.

The Israeli government recently announced that it will be issuing new bills bearing the images of the great Hebrew poets Rachel Bluwstein (1890-1931) and Leah Goldberg (1911-1970). Tzvi Novick writes about the work of both poets and presents in original translation a poem by each. Bluwstein’s “Kinneret” (the Hebrew term for the Sea of Galilee) begins thus:

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