(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. His poems 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. 157-58; 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.