Difference at War: Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, U. Z. Grinberg, and Poetry of the First World War

"Difference at War" is a comparative study of three Jewish poet-soldiers of the First World War: Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and U. Z. Grinberg. The article traces the development of poetic expression in relation to wartime and other experiences and argues for a necessary dichotomy between global occurrences and their representation in local cultures. The poetry of each of these Jewish poets was transformed by the War, but each was very differently transformed, even in the face of similar experiences in the trenches.