Holocaust Remembrance Day begins this evening (4/18) and ends tomorrow evening (4/19). As the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website explains: “The internationally recognized date comes from the Hebrew calendar and corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on that calendar. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.”
The poets that we feature today and tomorrow (as part of our…
by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
sometimes I wish the sequence of things
could have more closely
resembled the corpus of the Delft master—
a series of moments of contemplation,
delicate with import.
framed by pale glow and white marble,
how could my days not have assumed a
mantle of meaning?
the sun flowing through the many diamond frames
would have illuminated my letters from
old…
by Shmuel Hanagid (born 993 – died after 1056)
She said: “Be happy that God has helped you reach
The age of fifty in this world,” not knowing
That to me there is no difference between my life’s
Past and that of Noah about whom I heard.
For me there is only the hour in which I am present in this world:
It…
Click on the images above to see enlarged versions for easier viewing/reading.
At the Sewing Machine (from Songs of the Ghetto)
Poem by Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) with translation from Yiddish by Berthold Feiwel (1875-1937). Illustration by Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925).
Berlin, Benjamin Harz Verlag ca. 1902.
Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (1996.023). Gift of Michael Cohn.
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