WINDOWS TO ISRAEL
THROUGH LITERATURE
Windows to Israel through literature is an overarching title for a multitude of activities. They all offer an in-depth reading of the best of Israel’s poets and writers as a key to the many faces of its life and culture: Even if you never liked poetry, this is an experience you may wish to try.
You will meet here the older classics from H. N. Bialik and Nathan Alterman all the way to the most recently published young “Spoken Word” voices. You will explore the main stream voices and the edges. Women & Men, Arabs and Jews speaking from all along the ideological spectrum.
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The 2025 winter-spring semester of Israeli poetry starts on Wednesday January 22nd, and concludes on April 9th.
Israeli Poetry Classes are held weekly on Wednesdays at 11:00 am PT 2:00 pm ET 19:00 London 21:00 Israel.
This semester we are turning our attention to poetry created in the regions that are in the news since October 7th – yet we want to know them for what they were before tragedy hit – before their homes were burnt, before they suffered tremendous losses. We will explore the best of the literature that was created in the western Negev as well as the Galilee.
This program is offered at a suggested price of 20$ per session – 240 $ for the 12 sessions of the whole semester.
*All are welcome regardless of payment.
The 2025 winter-spring Book Club starts on Sunday, January 19th and concludes on April 6th.
Book Clubs sessions are held on Sundays - 10:00 am PT 1:00 pm ET 18:00 London 20:00 Israel time.
In this book club we discuss novels that were written in Hebrew and translated into English.
This time we focus on four stories from FOREVERMORE and OTHER STORIES By S. Y. Agnon.
This program is offered at a suggested price of 20$ per session – 240$ for all 12 sessions.
*All are welcome regardless of payment.
מפגשי השירה הישראלית יתחדשו ב-22 בינואר 2025.
השיעורים יתקיימו בימי רביעי בשעה 9:00 בבוקר בחוף המערבי, 12:00 בצהריים בחוף המזרחי, 17:00 בלונדון 19:00 זמן ישראל.
במפגשים אלה אנו מעיינים בשירה ישראלית על פי משוררים נבחרים או נושא מרכזי.
בסמסטר החורף-אביב נעיין בשירתו של נתן יונתן.
The 2025 winter-spring semester of Israeli poetry starts on Wednesday January 22nd, and concludes on April 9th.
Israeli Poetry Classes are held weekly on Wednesdays at 11:00 am PT 2:00 pm ET 19:00 London 21:00 Israel.
This semester we are turning our attention to poetry created in the regions that are in the news since October 7th – yet we want to know them for what they were before tragedy hit – before their homes were burnt, before they suffered tremendous losses. We will explore the best of the literature that was created in the western Negev as well as the Galilee.
This program is offered at a suggested price of 20$ per session – 240 $ for the 12 sessions of the whole semester.
*All are welcome regardless of payment.
The 2025 winter-spring Book Club starts on Sunday, January 19th and concludes on April 6th.
Book Clubs sessions are held on Sundays - 10:00 am PT 1:00 pm ET 18:00 London 20:00 Israel time.
In this book club we discuss novels that were written in Hebrew and translated into English.
This time we focus on four stories from FOREVERMORE and OTHER STORIES By S. Y. Agnon.
This program is offered at a suggested price of 20$ per session – 240$ for all 12 sessions.
*All are welcome regardless of payment.
מפגשי השירה הישראלית יתחדשו ב-22 בינואר 2025.
השיעורים יתקיימו בימי רביעי בשעה 9:00 בבוקר בחוף המערבי, 12:00 בצהריים בחוף המזרחי, 17:00 בלונדון 19:00 זמן ישראל.
במפגשים אלה אנו מעיינים בשירה ישראלית על פי משוררים נבחרים או נושא מרכזי.
בסמסטר החורף-אביב נעיין בשירתו של נתן יונתן.
KORAZIM
RACHEL
The 2025 winter-spring semester of Israeli poetry Classes starts on Wednesday January 22nd, and concludes on April 9th.
Israeli Poetry Classes are held weekly on Wednesdays at 11:00 am PT 2:00 pm ET 19:00 London 21:00 Israel.
This semester we are turning our attention to poetry created in the regions that are in the news since October 7th – yet we want to know them for what they were before tragedy hit – before their homes were burnt, before they suffered tremendous losses. We will explore the best of the literature that was created in the western Negev as well as the Galilee.
This program is offered at a suggested price of 20$ per session – 240 $ for the 12 sessions of the whole semester.
*All are welcome regardless of payment.
The 2025 winter-spring Book Club starts on Sunday, January 19th and concludes on April 6th.
Book Clubs sessions are held on Sundays - 10:00 am PT 1:00 pm ET 18:00 London 20:00 Israel time.
In this book club we discuss novels that were written in Hebrew and translated into English.
This time we focus on four stories from FOREVERMORE and OTHER STORIES By S. Y. Agnon.
This program is offered at a suggested price of 20$ per session – 240$ for all 12 sessions.
*All are welcome regardless of payment.
מפגשי השירה הישראלית יתחדשו ב-22 בינואר 2025.
השיעורים יתקיימו בימי רביעי בשעה 9:00 בבוקר בחוף המערבי, 12:00 בצהריים בחוף המזרחי, 17:00 בלונדון 19:00 זמן ישראל.
במפגשים אלה אנו מעיינים בשירה ישראלית על פי משוררים נבחרים או נושא מרכזי.
בסמסטר החורף-אביב נעיין בשירתו של נתן יונתן.
Shiva שבעה
A Bilingual Anthology
of Israeli Poetry in the Wake of October 7th
In the months following the horrors of October 7th, Israelis wrote poems to express the nation’s feelings and emotions. Well-known poets alongside new fresh voices appeared daily on social media and in the literary supplements of daily papers. They described the inability to speak; they gave voice to choked tears, rage and despair. This anthology includes 59 Hebrew poems printed alongside their English translations. Net proceeds of all sales will be donated to the Israel Trauma Coalition for their work with victims of October 7th and its aftermath.
