Category: Y L Kohn
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My Way Out of the Workshop
I moved out of the workshop to the Union / into the library, organizing and youth club / a new environment replaced my poor / little sorrowful home
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My Synagogue
My “shul” is my poor home / the yard, the streets of the city; / the streets surrounding were like stone tablets / like stone tablets marked with blood
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My Way through Life
My way through life, was through / Years of injustice and bitter suffering and anger / In my young life I struggled through / years of epidemics and hunger
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About Y L Kohn
Y L Kohn (1905-1940) was born in Warsaw, and worked as a metal worker. He wrote children’s literature as well as poetry, mainly in publications of the Bund. He was killed in Russia in 1940.