Rachel Tzvia Back is a poet and translator residing in the Galilee. Her Ruebner collection, In the Illuminated Dark: Selected Poems of Tuvia Ruebner (Hebrew Union College Press / University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014), was a finalist in 2015 for both the National Translation Award and the National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. (Click here to read the WLT review.) Her essay “ ‘A Species of Magic’: The Role of Poetry in Protest and Truth-telling” appeared in the May 2014 issue of WLT.
Cincinatti. Hebrew Union College Press. 2020. 188 pages.
THE POET TUVIA RUEBNER left this world just months before the arrival of a pandemic that has since shaken it. For a life shape...
Alex Ringer, “Thistle-Garden (Cynara syriaca f. alba),” Jezreel Valley, Israel
Introductory note by translator Rachel Tzvia Back
Tuvia Ruebner was born in Slovak...
Photo by Ryan Godfrey
X Days After the Amnesia Epidemic
We set out on this road knowing we would discover nothing amazing. We didn’t expect to find a new route to Mercury, we didn’t imagine we woul...
Rachel Tzvia Back, tr. & intro. Pittsburgh. Hebrew Union College Press / University of Pittsburgh Press. 2014. ISBN 9780878202553
There is reason to celebrate the publication of this scholarly und...