| 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.
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 |