Nina Salaman

British Jewish poet, translator, and social activist

Pauline Ruth "Nina" Salaman (née Davis) (15 July 1877 – 22 February 1925) was a British poet. Many of her poems and translations are included in the Routledge festival prayer books still used today.

Portrait of Nina Salaman by Solomon Joseph Solomon (1918)
Title page of Songs of Exile by Hebrew Poets (1901)

Quotes

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  • Ours it is to bear the Sabbath in our souls.
    • Poem The Sabbath (1918)
  • Surely a limit boundet every woe,
    But mine enduring anguish hath no end
    • Poem A Song of Redemption
  • At the dawn I seek Thee,
    Refuge, Rock sublime;
    Set my prayer before thee in the morning,
    And my prayer at eventime.
    • Poem At the dawn I seek Thee
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