Selections from Yingl tsingl khvat by Mani Leib, illustrated by El Lissitzky.Yingl tsingl khvat images from YIVO microfilm printout 00004383. From the Norton Jewish American Literature Anthology: “The most famous of [Mani Leib’s] ballads was Yingl tsingl khvat, a narrative about a boy who, stuck in the shtetl mud, persuades a nobleman to give him the magic ring and flying horse that allow him to escape…
Your Golden Hair, Margarete, 1980Anselm Kiefer (German, born 1945)Watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper The artist Anselm Kiefer (who was recently awarded the Leo Baeck Medal) was inspired by Paul Celan’s poem “Death Fugue” (“Todesfuge”) to create more than 30 paintings, painted photographs and watercolors, each of which somehow refers to the poem. You can see that the above painting – which is one of this…
Click on the text of the poem above to see an enlarged version for easier reading. The Buried Womanby Gertrud Kolmar – Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner (10 December 1894–March 1943), known by the literary pseudonym Gertrud Kolmar, was a German lyric poet and writer. She was born in Berlin and died, after her arrest and deportation as a Jew, in Auschwitz, a victim of the…
by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub sometimes I wish the sequence of thingscould have more closelyresembled 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 amantle of meaning?the sun flowing through the many diamond frameswould have illuminated my letters fromold friends and imagined beaus in warrens of anxiety.and I would…