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Avrom Sutzkever

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Avrom Sutzkever

Avrom Sutzkever was the greatest Jewish poet of his time. He spent his childhood in Siberia and emerged as a writer in the youthful literary flowering of Jewish Vilna. As poet and Jew in the Vilna Ghetto, he was transformed into a living remnant of a people's near death, writing immortal works and helping to conceal Jewish cultural treasures for later rescue. After the war, he became a prophetic symbol and a cultural-historical institution, founding Yiddish literature's greatest journal in Israel. A committed Zionist, he earned his country's highest literary honor even as its powerful never abandoned their suspicion of Yiddish literary creativity.

 

Articles by Avrom Sutzkever

From “Ode to The Dove”
By Avrom Sutzkever
Trapped on the lips are sounds, like pearls of forts oceanate
Translated from Yiddish by Zackary Sholem Berger