{"id":2303,"date":"2012-04-25T20:33:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/25\/1919-by-jacob-glatstein-yankev-glatshteyn\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:50:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:50:45","slug":"1919-by-jacob-glatstein-yankev-glatshteyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/25\/1919-by-jacob-glatstein-yankev-glatshteyn\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

1919<\/strong>
by Jacob Glatstein<\/a> (Yankev Glatshteyn)
translated by Kathryn Hellerstein and Benjamin Harshav<\/p>\n

Lately, there’s no trace left
Of Yankl, son of Yitskhok,
But for a tiny round dot
That rolls crazily through the streets
With hooked-on, clumsy limbs.
The lord-above surrounded
The whole world with heaven-blue
And there is no escape.
Everywhere “Extras!” fall from above
And squash my watery head.
And someone’s long tongue
Has stained my glasses for good with a smear of red,
And red, red, red.
You see:
One of these days something will explode in my head,
Ignite there will be a dull crash
And leave behind a heap of dirty ashes
And I,
The tiny dot,
Will spin in either for eternities,
Wrapped in red veils.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Translation source: Jewish American Literature<\/em>, A Norton Anthology<\/p>\n

Submitted by Sarah Ponichtera, Center for Jewish History.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Source:<\/span> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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