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Genre/Form: | Poetry Texts Translations Translations into English |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Last lullaby. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)988844087 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Aaron Kramer; Saul Lishinsky |
ISBN: | 0815604785 9780815604785 081560579X 9780815605799 |
OCLC Number: | 36916889 |
Notes: | "A Dora Teitelboim Foundation publication." |
Description: | xix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The Emperor of Atlantis and other writings -- Lullabies of the Holocaust -- Poets of the Holocaust -- Songs of the ghettos and death camps -- Partisan poets -- Soviet Yiddish poets -- Survivors -- From across the wide sea. |
Series Title: | Religion, theology, and the Holocaust. |
Responsibility: | edited and translated by Aaron Kramer ; drawings by Saul Lishinsky. |
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Kramer, a poet and scholar specializing in the translation of Yiddish literature, has been collecting and translating poetry written by victims and survivors of the Holocaust for 50 years, determined to preserve this indelible evidence of their courage and grief. The poignant works collected here include poems by Europeans and Russians who attained recognition as published writers, as well as poems and songs by people who never intended to become poets but who were driven to express the unbearable emotions aroused by the horrors of the Nazi era. Kramer has translated and preserved poems written under nightmarish circumstances in Jewish ghettos, way stations, death camps, and forests, poems full, not of fear and loathing, but of shock, of course, and sorrow and also deep spirituality, love, and forgiveness. Most are not works of art but the prayers of martyrs and the elegies of mourners, and as such, they glow with all that is good and strong in the human heart. Read more...


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- Yiddish poetry -- Translations into English.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poetry.
- Lullabies, Yiddish -- Europe -- Texts.
- Lullabies, Yiddish.
- Yiddish poetry.
- Europe.
- Lyrik
- Judenvernichtung
- Belletristische Darstellung
- Anthologie
- Jiddisch.
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