“Sutzkever”

Sutzkever’s cycle of poems about his childhood years spent in Siberia: “In the light-dark snowed-under / village of my childhood in Siberia / blossoms bloom from shadows’ eyes— / countless quicksilver blossoms...”

Annabel Cohen translates Abraham Sutzkever’s poem, “Paris.”

A prose poem from Abraham Sutzkever’s 1975 volume Green Aquarium. “A man with a heavy bag on his back approaches a dark city in a rainstorm...”

Three poems from Abraham Sutzkever’s collection Poems from My Diary.

Not a translation! An original English-language Yiddish poem.

Rojanski’s work provides a comprehensive picture of the events and personalities that chart the history of Yiddish in Israel.