Lilach Lachman

Ktivat-Adam (Homograph): Avot Yeshurun, the Long Poem, and Poetic Historiography

This essay explores how the long poem authorizes itself to reshape memory. I develop the notion of “poetic historiography” on the basis of Paul Ricoeur’s Memory, History, Forgetting (2004) and by examining three mutations of Israeli poet Avot Yeshurun’s (1904–1992) long poems. In...

Lullaby and Mother Tongue: Poetic Performance and the Hebrew Lullaby

What is the role of form-making in the reception of the lullaby? How does the cradlesong radicalize the lyric’s tension between the drive to approximate the earliest syllable preceding speech and its verbal transmission to a historicized reader? This article traces the shapings o...