(pseudonym of Shapira, Shalom Joseph). Four autograph Hebrew poems signed by the poet: "Ishah aphorah"; "Ki lo nagi'a le-sham"; "Katif ba-aretz"; and "Mathai?"

Shin Shalom.

Jerusalem

1942-45

"Shin Shalom," nom de plume of Shalom Joseph Shapira, was one of modern Israel's greatest poets and the scion of several distinguished Chassidic dynasties. Upon first arriving in Eretz Israel in 1926, he joined the rabbis of his family in founding Kefar Hasidim in the Jezreel Valley. The poems of Shin Shalom are oftentimes suffused with a distinctly Chassidic spirituality, albeit garbed in modern Hebrew idiom. No doubt, under the impact of the Holocaust, the poems here give poignant expression to feelings of loss and a quickening of the longing for salvation. The first two poems are included in the complete collection of the writings of Shin Shalom (Tel-Aviv, 1966), Vol. I, pp. 157-158; the last two poems appear in Vol. IV, pp. 138, 160.See EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 1271-1272; Tz. M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidim, p. 445, s.v. Shapira, Abraham Jacob.