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Abraham Sutzkever, right, before World War II in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Courtesy photo)

How poetry literally saved the life of a famed Yiddish writer

Avraham Sutzkever’s astonishing life story is being told on film for the first time in an award-winning documentary co-produced by his granddaughter.

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 24, 2019 5:16 pm

This Forgotten Soviet Artist Depicted Jewish Suffering

Raised images of Yiddish poets gaze at viewers from gravestones. These two-dimensional memorials, however, are the only gravestones these 12 poets murdered under Stalin would ever have. This series of portraits, called “The Great Thinkers,” is by Lazar Ran, a Latvian-born artist who devoted himself to depicting Jewish life and suffering in the Soviet Union. […]

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Yiddish-Speaking Tigers and Klezmer-Playing Bears for Poland’s Jewish Kids

Playful poems of a wise owl, a menacing tiger and a klezmer-playing bear that once delighted Yiddish-speaking Polish children are making an unlikely comeback in a soon-to-be-released children’s book for a new generation of Poland’s Jewish children. Once nearly lost to history, the delightful read-aloud poems are among others in Yiddish Zoo, featuring poems written […]

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yiddish poet

How poetry literally saved the life of a famed Yiddish writer

This Forgotten Soviet Artist Depicted Jewish Suffering

Yiddish-Speaking Tigers and Klezmer-Playing Bears for Poland’s Jewish Kids

Reading the Koran in Yiddish

A Yiddish Poet’s Musical Second Wind

How poetry literally saved the life of a famed Yiddish writer

This Forgotten Soviet Artist Depicted Jewish Suffering

Yiddish-Speaking Tigers and Klezmer-Playing Bears for Poland’s Jewish Kids

Reading the Koran in Yiddish

A Yiddish Poet’s Musical Second Wind

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