Rachel Tzvia Back

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.

Now at the Threshold: The Late Poems of Tuvia Ruebner by Tuvia Ruebner

By Tuvia Ruebner

Spring 2021
Tuvia Ruebner

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...
Three Protest Poems Against the Violence in Israel

March 23, 2016 | Tuvia Ruebner

Alex Ringer, “Thistle-Garden (Cynara syriaca f. alba),” Jezreel Valley, Israel Introductory note by translator Rachel Tzvia Back Tuvia Ruebner was born in Slovak...
Four Poems

By Mei-Tal Nadler

May 2015
Mei-Tal Nadler

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...
In the Illuminated Dark: Selected Poems of Tuvia Ruebner by Tuvia Ruebner

By Tuvia Ruebner

January 2015
Tuvia Ruebner

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...