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There's Music in Sutzkever's Poetry
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Mira (Mirele) Sutzkever, daughter of Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, describes the beauty, the musical quality of her father's poetry.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mira (Mirele) Sutzkever.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
Other video highlights from this oral history
There's Music in Sutzkever's Poetry
57 seconds
Reading Avrom Sutzkever's Poem "Yiddish"
2 minutes
Avrom Sutzkever's Poem "Shpiltsayg"
1 minute 41 seconds
How Sutzkever Wrote "Unter dayne vayse shtern," Explained By His Daughter
1 minute 12 seconds
On Visiting Vilna, Where My Father, Great Yiddish Poet Avrom Sutzkever Wrote
1 minute 30 secondsMore information about this oral history excerpt
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Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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