You Who Cross My Path
This first US publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel''s most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton''s bilingual collection dramatically expands the scope of biographical experience and memory, ultimately resurrecting a vanishing...
This first US publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel''s most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton''s bilingual collection dramatically expands the scope of biographical experience and memory, ultimately resurrecting a vanishing...
