Tamar Wolf-Monzon, Bahir vegavohah kezemer: Ya’akov Orland: poetikah, historiyah, tarbut (Ya’acov Orland: Poetics, History, Culture). Sdeh Boker: The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, 2016. 512 pp. + audio disc.

Ya’acov Orland (1914–2002), a young contemporary of the Israeli poets Avraham Shlonsky, Nathan Alterman, and Leah Goldberg, was a prolific and versatile poet, playwright, and translator, one among the first generation of creative artists whose entire output was produced in Mandatory Palestine and later, the state of Israel. Many of Orland’s highly musical poems were popular with those composers who created the magnificent repertory of popular Hebrew songs known as ...