The Song Remains – דאָס ליד איז געבליבן

Category: Borekh Olitzki (Baruch Olitzky)

  • My Simple Sisters

    My simple sisters, / my shepherdesses and seamstresses / with their blond braids / call to me from the sidewalks of Łodz / to make benches and straw roofs.

  • Blood

    Not prophets, apostles / not extinguished suns / not unfortunate mountains and valleys / have come to warn, to tell –

  • Spring

    Like fish with mother of pearl / clouds swim in the cool sky / and from their feathers flow / drip drops clouded with the sun / into the dark mouth of earth

  • Novoyelnie (Nowojelnia / Наваельня)

    June walks around the forest with the sun / as if he held a red fruit in his mouth / and hangs onto every tree with love / and tenderly caresses every plant

  • Warsaw Themes

    Not for nothing do childish cries / sound against my blue windows all night // In the morning a mother tossed her 6-day old child / on to the corner of Karmelicka Street

  • About Borekh Olitzki (Baruch Olitzky)

    Borekh Olitzki (1907-1941) born in Turzysk (Trisk / Turiis’k), Volhynia, the middle brother in a literary family. Borekh was educated in a kheder (religious school). He lost his father during the First World War, and moved to Ratno (Ratne) where he lived with an uncle. He taught throughout Volhynia, and later in Łódź and Warsaw…