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A rare, long-lost copy of Caedmon's Hymn — the oldest surviving poem in Old English — is visible in the five lines above the final line of a page from an 8th-century manuscript copy of the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, at Rome's National Library, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)
May 17, 2026, 10:11 am
Researchers find oldest English poem in a Roman library
Caedmon’s Hymn, composed in Old English by a Northumbrian agricultural worker in 7th century, attests to language’s wide diffusion, long before what was previously understood
By Andrea Rosa
Artist's image of Noah's ark (Javier_Art_Photography via iStock by Getty Images)
July 2, 2023, 3:58 pm
Poet brings biblical Noah into familiar territory of urban Israel, and climate change
‘The Book of Noah’ is Yoni Hammer-Kossoy’s ode to the environment and his backyard, along with the high-tech industry he left behind
By Jessica Steinberg
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is escorted to a vehicle outside of her home in San Francisco, November 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
November 5, 2022, 2:31 pm
Nancy Pelosi quotes Israeli poem in first appearance since husband assaulted
As Paul Pelosi released from the hospital, US House speaker reads portion of Ehud Manor’s ‘I Have No Other Land,’ which she has cited publicly on other occasions
By ToI Staff and AP
Rabbi Haim Louk, a famed singer of liturgical poems, who will perform with Israeli singers Amir Benayoun and Berry Sakharov for his 80th birthday celebrations in October and December 2021. (courtesy, Shmulik Balmas)
October 18, 2021, 8:23 pm
At 80, rabbi rocks liturgical socks off
Moroccan-born Chaim Louk celebrates his 80th with singer Amir Benayoun and rocker Berry Sakharov
By Jessica Steinberg
US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden watch a military pass in review ceremony on the East Front of the Capitol at the conclusion of the inauguration ceremonies, in Washington, January 20, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
January 29, 2021, 5:05 am
Librettist Gene Scheer is awed Biden cited his ‘American Anthem’ at inauguration
The songwriter speaks about the shocking moment he realized the president was quoting his work, and what it means to him as a Jewish American
By Ron Kampeas
From left: Israeli poets Yonatan Berg, Shimon Adaf, and Hagit Grossman. (Micol Levi Yaron, Courtesy Wesleyan University Press; Ronen Lalena; Dina Gona)
May 11, 2020, 4:17 pm
Locked down? Open up to… 3 exceptional contemporary Israeli poets
Two new collections have been released in recent months, and one slightly older poem serves as an anthem for these times
By Mitch Ginsburg
Poet Alicia Jo Rabins. (Courtesy/ Alicia J. Rose)
May 11, 2020, 4:01 am
Under lockdown, Portland writer pivots to pandemic poetry — from her bathtub
Oregon artist Alicia Jo Rabins’ new project is topical poems steeped in Jewish culture, yearning, and… bath salts
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
A self-portrait by Isaac Rosenberg. (Public domain)
May 12, 2018, 8:52 am
The destitute UK Jew who became one of WWI’s greatest poets from the trenches
On the centennial of his violent death comes the story of Isaac Rosenberg, the son of penniless Lithuanian immigrants whose anti-war poems lit up the battlefield
By Robert Philpot
Leonard Cohen in concert at London’s O2 Arena, September 15, 2013. (Brian Rasic/Getty Images/JTA)
October 7, 2017, 10:23 am
Leonard Cohen poems, finished in last days, to be published in final book
The ‘singular focus’ of the songwriter’s final months, ‘The Flame’ will include texts completed just before his death last year
By AFP
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)
May 28, 2013, 6:58 pm
Tel Aviv mayor flaunts poetry skills
Ron Huldai responds in kind to resident’s plea in verse for a parking ticket to be canceled
By Adiv Sterman
January 2, 2013, 3:51 pm
German pol quits race over poems seen as anti-Semitic
Green Party welcomes withdrawal of candidate over ‘derogatory’ attack on ritual circumcision
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