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The Standard Book of Jewish Verse
Hebrew poetry … was essentially religious, flowing from an intense racial consciousness and developing to an exalted spiritual mood, under stress of mingled storm and sunshine of national fortune.
Introduction
Joseph
Friedlander

The Standard Book of Jewish Verse

Compiled by Joseph Friedlander Edited by George Alexander Kohut

These 731 selections span three millenia and comprise the loving work of an expert compiler, scores of translators, and hundreds of Jewish and non-Jewish authors.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

 Editor’s Introduction    Introduction    Acknowledgments

NEW YORK: DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, 1917
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010

I. Biblical and Post-Biblical
II. Talmudical Period
III. Mediaeval Period
IV. The Jewish Year
V. Liturgical
VI. National
VII. The Modern Period
VIII. In Lighter Vein