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

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…
Three Protest Poems Against the Violence in Israel

March 23, 2016 Tuvia Ruebner
Alex Ringer, “Thistle-Garden (Cynara syriaca f. alba),” Jezreel Valley, IsraelIntroductory note by translator Rachel Tzvia BackTuvia Ruebner was born in Slovakia i…
Four Poems
By Mei-Tal Nadler
May 2015
Mei-Tal Nadler
Photo by Ryan GodfreyX Days After the Amnesia EpidemicWe 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 would s…
In the Illuminated Dark: Selected Poems of Tuvia Ruebner by Tuvia Ruebner
By Tuvia Ruebner

Tuvia Ruebner
Rachel Tzvia Back, tr. & intro. Pittsburgh. Hebrew Union College Press / University of Pittsburgh Press. 2014. ISBN 9780878202553There is reason to celebrate the publication of this scholarly…