Zayde Reeven 1,2,3 And Collected Poetry

After a lifetime of poetry, this collection provides a mere fraction of Rabbi Reeve Robert Brenner’s literary output, however removed from his far better known works of scholarship and philosophy. Sometimes playful and at other times serious, even profound, he offers various variations on a theme and several changes in personas. He writes as a Jew, of course, as a Rabbi, but also as a father, grandfather and friend, with his heart often in the land of Israel, but always still quintessentially American.

Reeve Robert Brenner was born in the Bronx, N.Y. in 1936. He was raised in Brooklyn and was Yeshiva educated. His father Abraham was a businessman who sculpted monuments and figures according to strict Jewish law and tradition. His mother Eva, a prodi