I Want to Fall Like This: Selected Poems, A Bilingual Edition by Rukhl Fishman eBook a Biblical matriarch

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A student of Jewish folklore

encounters with angels and demons

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I Want to Fall Like This: Selected Poems, A Bilingual Edition by Rukhl Fishman eBook a Biblical matriarchEnglish Yiddish Bilingual Edition Translated by Seymour Levitan I Want To Fall Like This showcases the inspired poetry of Ruhkl Fishman (1935 1984), the youngest and only American born Yiddish poet of the "Yung Yisroel." This group of young poets and prose writers from across the world settled in Israel after World War II, and used Yiddish, instead of Hebrew, to bridge the gaps across time and place. Readers can trace Fishman's American influences to