2008 Reuben Rose Competition

Winners, and texts of poems

The judge for the 19th Competition held in 2008 was Richard Burns (Berengarten), UK

1st.  Prize:  Rochelle Mass,  Israel
2nd. Prize: Martin Herskovitz, Israel
3rd. Prize:  Michael Dickel, Israel

Highly Commended:

Rochelle Mass, Israel – Where’s my home?
Dianne Greenberg, Israel – I cannot plant
Breindel Lieba Kasher, Israel – Natan the Gabbai 
Michael Dickel, Israel – As in a dream I see a grave that is not there
Rochelle Mass, Israel – 4 women

Commended:

Adrian Boas, Israel – A Photograph by Frédéric Brenner
Gary Corbi, USA – Ein Gedi
Judit Niran, Israel – Letter to Firoozeh
Gerard Sarnat, USA – The Patriarch
Jean Kadmon, Israel – Jerusalem Autumn (During the Year Of Pinatubo’s Eruption)
Adrian Boa, Israel – Bee

To read and download the texts of the three prize-winning poems, click here (PDF file). Regretfully we do not have e-texts of the Commended and Highly Commended poems.