Research Catalog

Title

Harvest : collected poems & prayers / Ruth F. Brin.

Author

Brin, Ruth Firestone.

Publication

Duluth, Minn. : Holy Cow! Press, 1999.

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Description

245 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• "Ruth F. Brin is one of the liturgical pioneers of the post-World War II era. In the 1950s, when most Jewish women still seemed content with their traditional subordinate role in public worship, Ruth Brin was already at work modernizing traditional Jewish prayers and texts, and offering new interpretive readings and original poetry reflecting her own religious experience. Today it is difficult to find a Reform, Conservative, or Reconstructionist prayer book or anthology that does not include her writings.
• She is the only woman and one of the few American-born writers of whom this can be said. Harvest: Collected Poems and Prayers brings together her writings from nearly 30 years and represents Brin's wide-ranging search for the power and meaning of prayer."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Jewish religious poetry, American
• Prayers

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Introduction / Charles E. Silberman -- God of Rain and Wind -- A Woman's Meditation -- Southern Journey -- God of Men and Mountains -- Haluzim -- For My Father: Home Movies -- Parents' Prayer -- "Created in the Image" -- The Tree Trimmer -- September -- A Sense of Your Presence -- During Amidah in a Crowded Synagogue -- Variation on the Kaddish -- Creation -- Genesis -- In Praise -- Noah -- Abraham Goes Forth -- To Be Repeated by the Seed of Abraham -- The Binding of Isaac -- Abraham and Isaac -- The Ram -- The Life of Sarah -- The Generations of Isaac -- Jacob's Dream -- Jacob Becomes Israel -- Jacob -- Joseph -- Joseph and Pharaoh -- Joseph and His Brothers -- The Death of Jacob -- The Burning Bush -- Moses and Aaron -- The Last Plagues -- The Passage of the Sea of Reeds -- The Ten Commandments -- Strangers -- How to Build the Tabernacle -- The Priest's Garments -- The Golden Calf -- Attributes of God -- No Sheltering Place -- They Build the Tabernacle --
• The Tabernacle Completed -- The Book of Leviticus -- Prophet and Priest -- The Priests Begin Their Work -- Laws of Purification -- Delight -- Love Your Neighbor -- The Holy Days -- Testament of Freedom -- Starlight -- In the Wilderness -- The Silver Bowl and the Golden Spoon -- From Sinai to Moab -- Moses, Moses -- An Assumption of Faith -- The Rebellion of Korah -- Purification -- The Waters of Meribah -- The New Moon -- Reuben and Gad -- To the Jordan River -- God's Tenderness -- The Funnel of Time -- Lessons of the Wilderness -- The Choice -- Rules for the King -- Family Laws -- Remembrance -- Across Every River -- King Josiah -- The Last Days of Moses -- The Song of Moses -- Sub Specie Aeternitas -- Wingless -- When We Stood at Sinai -- Snow Scene -- Rich Signs -- God of Sky and Sea -- Master of All Worlds -- Yizkor -- Letter to a Humanist -- Out of My Need -- Invisible, Intangible -- Books -- "The Chosen People" -- Demons and Ghosts --
• The Gift of Speech -- Fingerprints -- Timor Temporis -- God, You Listen -- November -- The Ringed Hand -- A Bloodroot Blossoming -- Jewish Beginnings -- Who Are These Jews? -- The Tyranny of Time -- Network -- Shehehiyanu -- A Mother's Prayer at the Naming of her Daughter -- A Mother's Prayer at the Circumcision of her Son -- Sabbath Prayer -- For Sabbath Evening -- A Response to "Ayshet Hayil" -- Illuminations -- Memory -- Kol Nidre -- Selihot -- Footnote to a Rosh HaShana Prayer -- Sh'ma Kolenu -- The Shofar Calls -- In the Fall -- Return -- The Watchtower -- Ya'aleh -- Avinu Malkenu: Our Father, Our King -- Al Het -- Rhythms -- Simhat Torah -- Sukkot -- For the Blessings -- Dedication -- Hanukah -- Ceremony of Spring -- The Month of our Freedom -- Uncompleted Journey -- Celebration: for the Ninth of Ab -- Jews Confront History -- A Prayer for the Captives -- The Proud Worm -- "The Heavens Declare the Glory of God" -- Ruah -- Elijah -- A Poem --
• Ballad for Howard -- Farewell -- For My Mother -- Not the Last Poem for Betty -- Directions -- The St. Croix River -- Sun -- Building -- Icicle -- Geese -- Winter -- Sonnet for a Desperate Soul -- Wind Song -- Strange Bird -- Though April -- The Chagall Windows in Jerusalem -- On Cedar Lake, 1957 -- A Riddle -- Discovery -- Boiling Springs -- For My Daughter -- Verse for a Mystic -- The Odyssey and the Exodus -- Syllogism -- The Doe -- On First Looking into my Son's Chemistry Book: O -- Returning to Jerusalem, 1957 -- Safed -- My Daughter, My Son -- Saturday Morning in the Country of the Old Men -- For Nelly Sachs -- The Wall: The Poem I Couldn't Write -- My Talit -- The River -- Grandmother -- Only the Young -- Power Saws -- Private Ritual -- Music -- When Death Comes -- The Pendulum -- Miami Beach -- Curacao -- Surgery.

ISBN

0930100891 (pbk.)

LCCN

99022745

OCLC

• 504891902
• ocn504891902

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries