2016 Reuben Rose Competition

Winners, and texts of poems

The judges for the 27th Competition, held in 2016, were:

• Clem Cairns, Ireland — this year’s Overseas Judge
• Johnmichael Simon, Israel — last year’s First Prize winner
• Helen Bar-Lev, Israel — last year’s Second Prize winner

First prize – Ricky Friesem, Israel: Director’s Notes: Holocaust Memorial Day, Tel Aviv
Second prize – Joyce Schmid, Israel: Filíocht
Third prize – Wendy Dickstein, Israel: Salonika, Mother of Israel

Honorable mentions in random order:

Chaim Bezalel – My Acting Career in Two Bit Parts
Davi Walders – Derricks & Dreidls
Grace Curtis – Upon Learning Einstein Was Wrong
Ellaraine Lockie – Jew as Noun
Judith R. Robinson – Aunt Lillian 
Bill Freedman – Drinking the Sea (a lullaby for Etai)
Joan Michelson – Artist and Mother: Poland, 1950s
Orit Perlman – Stranger
Elisabeth Murawski – Ternivka
Jed Myers – Toward Forgiveness 

To read and download the texts of the poems, click here (PDF file).