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In the Courtyard A summer morning. Five AM, / and so the courtyard awakens. / Things get humming, animated, / off they run to feed the chickens. Read more…
Spring 1942 And lo and behold Spring has indeed arrived – / Hey, sky – be joyful. Be joyful – / you’re fresh, newborn, and lie in a blue golden cradle / rocked by the gentle wind. Read more…
About Simkha-Bunim Shayevitch (Simkhe-Bunim Shayevitsh) Simkha-Bunim Shayevitch (1907-1944) was born in Łęczyca (Lentshits) into a poor religious family that moved to Łódź. He was ordained as a rabbi, but never practiced. He learned to make gloves, and wrote prolifically. His father and mother died shortly after being confined in the Łódź Ghetto. His lost his wife and youngest child when… Read more…
I Listened Closely to my Soul I listened closely to my soul, / and heard, from afar, the song / of men striding with purpose, / their steps ringing on the hard earth. Read more…
About Dovid Kenigsberg Dovid Kenigsberg (1891-1942?) was born in Busk, Galicia, and studied on Brody (Brod) and Czernowitz (Chernivtsi). He worked as a bookkeeper in Lwów (Lvov / Lviv / Lemberg). His first piece was printed in the collection Yungt in 1909, and he published his first poetry collection Lider, an 1912. Read more…
A morning Morning hangs on the windows, blue / and fragrant with lilac and jasmine. / My lips tremble and pay quiet tribute to / everything that is young and green. Read more…
The Little Town A little town full of life’s travail / escorts the procession to the grave; / and a world is roused by a mother’s lamentation: — My Feygele, where are you being taken? Read more…
Warsaw The yoke is upon you, city, / forged to your stony shoulders, / for you’re hitched to hundreds of cities / and a violent con, a flogger, holds the reins. Read more…
Landscapes On the downy snow-bed / nights lie and serenely sleep, / in stalls, cows doze … Read more…
At the Tips of Trees At the tips of trees, days die, / at the tips of trees, magnificent dawns arise – / I am also a tree – and it will be the same for me. Read more…