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Avrom Sutzkever: The Shakespeare of Yiddish

Samuel Bak, prominent Jewish artist from Vilna, talks about Avrom Sutzkever's contribution to Yiddish language and literature.

A Translator Recalls Encounters with Avrom Sutzkever

Barnett Zumoff, Yiddish translator and President Emeritus of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring, recalls his personal and literary encounters with Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever.

Of Course The Great Yiddish Writer Avrom Sutzkever Stayed With Us!

Liba Augenfeld - Vilna native, former Jewish partisan and prominent Yiddish cultural activist after immigrating to Montreal - remembers how poet Avrom Sutzkever, whom she knew from their time as partisans, stayed with her family when he visited Montr...

A Present From Abraham Sutzkever

Valery Dymshits, researcher and lecturer at the at the Interdepartmental Center "Petersburg Judaica" at the European University at St. Petersburg speaks about a brief encounter with writer and poet Abraham Sutzkever.

Memories of Chaim Grade, Avrom Sutzkever, and Itzik Manger

Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav, z"l - professor emeritus at Yale University - remembers how his father taught writers Chaim Grade and Avrom Sutzkever Jewish history - and recounts an infamous story about Itzik Manger.

Remembering Sutzkever

Samuel Bak, prominent Jewish artist from Vilna, shares memories about Avrom Sutzkever's good looks, his role in preserving Yiddish after the war, translations of his poetry, and their personal relationship.

Reciting "Dos Yingl fun Ayzn" for Avrom Sutzkever

Leo Melamed - child survivor of the Holocaust and former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange - describes how Yiddish writers would visit his family home in Chicago and remembers reciting on of Avrom Sutzkever's poems for the poet.

Stepping Into the World of Sutzkever

Maia Evrona, poet and translator of Yiddish poetry describes the feeling of translating Sutzkever's poetry.

The Fiddler Plays, A Translation of Avrom Sutzkever

Maia Evrona, poet and translator of Yiddish poetry, recites one of her favorite poems, "The Fiddler Plays" - which she translated from Avrom Sutzkever's collection, Poems from My Diary/Lider fun Togbukh.

Reading Avrom Sutzkever

Christa Whitney describes her experience with reading Avrom Sutzkever for the first time in both translation and Yiddish.

The Golden Thread: translations from the ghetto-songs by Rokhl Korn and Avrom Sutzkever

Rivka Augenfeld
Liba Augenfeld
Seymour Mayne

Rivka Augenfeld
Liba Augenfeld
Seymour Mayne

March 20, 1983