Tag: Kraków
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About Hersh Veber
Hersh Veber (1904-1943) was born in Jasło (Yaslo). He had a religious upbringing, and later studied mathematics at Kraków University. He published his first poem in 1930, and continued to publish poems in a number of journals and periodicals. During the Nazi occupation he was confined in the Janów ghetto. He was murdered in Drohobycz…
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About Ber Horovits
Ber Horovits (1895-1942) was born in the rural village of Majdan, in the Carpathian Mountains of eastern Galicia. He received a traditional Jewish education at home, and also studied at a Ukrainian primary school, and graduated from the Polish gymnasium in Stanisławów. He fought for the imperial Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, and…
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Farewell, my Kraków
Farewell, my Kraków! / Farewell my dear / The wagon waits before my house /and mad enemies are here drive me out / like you would cruelly chase a dog
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About Mordkhe (Mordechai) Gebirtig
Mordkhe (Mordechai) Gebirtig was born Markus Bertig in Kraków on 4 May 1877, and is one of the best known Yiddish poets. He trained as a carpenter, but his true passion was the theater. He published his first book of poetry in 1920, and made many of his poems into songs.