Creator Bio
Rivka Miriam
b. 1952
Rivka Miriam is a poet, author, illustrator, and creative-writing teacher. The daughter of the Yiddish poet Leib Rochman, she was born in Jerusalem and published her first poems at age eight. Her paintings have been exhibited in Israeli museums and galleries. She also heads Jerusalem’s Elul Open College for the interdisciplinary teaching of religious and secular Jews. She was awarded the Leah Goldberg Prize in 1996.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Hear, O Israel
Hear O Israel, in the depths of our home
There lives alone the empty room
What will we do with it, that empty room
What will we do with it, that empty room
Shall we enter and shove ourselves between…