The Song Remains – דאָס ליד איז געבליבן

Category: Roze Perets-Laks

  • Winter Morning

    So good on a wintry blue dawn / to sweetly stretch out / one’s tired limbs / and feel the tender embrace / of the bed.

  • A December Eve

    Like flowing metal, the December sky. / Now and then a last skinny leaf falls / from the naked poplars / juxtaposed …

  • About Roze Perets-Laks

    Roze Perets-Laks (1894-1941?) was born in Puławy (Pulavi), in the Lublin district of Poland. She studied dentistry in Warsaw, and later practised as a dentist there. During her time in Warsaw, she spent time in the home of her father’s cousin, the iconic Yiddish writer and poet I L Peretz, and later wrote a memoir…