Peter Jay (b.1945) read Classics and English at Oxford, and founded Anvil Press in 1968. He edited 'The Greek Anthology' for Penguin Classics and has translated modern Romanian and Hungarian poetry, including the work of Ana Blandiana. He is the author of 'Shifting Frontiers' (1980), the translator of Gerard de Nerval's 'The Chimeras' (1984) and the editor, with Caroline Lewis, of 'Sappho Through English Poetry' (1996). He lives in Greenwich.Rabbi Dr David Goldstein (1933-1987) was Associate Minister at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London. He was co-editor of the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. His translations of 'The Jewish Poets of Spain' were published by Penguin Classics.
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'The translation is modern and crisp... It is a model for the translations of the future of any ancient Hebrew poetry... Mr Jay has made beautiful sense of each poem' - Peter Levi, Journal of Jewish Studies