In the spring of 1942, Shaul Tchernichovsky, one of the greatest Hebrew poets, sat down and wrote a collection of seven ballads — the Ballads of Worms. The fifth ballad in the series, written in late March in Tel Aviv, is named after a pair of graves located in what is now the oldest Jewish…
In the spring of 1942, as war was raging in Europe and the world, Shaul Tchernichovsky, one of the greatest Hebrew poets, sat down and wrote a collection of seven ballads — the Ballads of Worms. Some 700 years have passed since the Prince-Bishop of Basel went on his eventful hunt and until the event…