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Ber Horvitz: My Lament

My Lament
Ber Horvitz

Space enveloped me
like young green toadstools
by snow
with its thick, heavy prayer shawl…
After that nothing hurt…

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• Contents

  • Introduction
  • Theme 1: Nature
  • Theme 2: Home, Love, Life
  • Theme 3: Ghetto, Hunger, Struggle
  • Theme 4: Death, Anger, Mourning
    • Nokhum Bomze: On Golden Bridge
    • Moishe Kaufman: The Wine Is Bitter
    • Moishe Kaufman: My Last Request
    • Moishe Kaufman: Not Chosen
    • Ber Horvitz: My Lament
    • Yitzkhok Katzenelson: The Chronicle of Hershele
    • Yitzkhok Katznelson: Shlomo Zhelikhovsky
    • Izi Kharik: Pass On, Pass On
    • Itzik Manger: Fever Balad
    • Itzik Manger: Night Procession
    • Shmel Marvil: Poem to the Gentlemen
    • Aba Shtoltzenberg: Boys on the Square
    • Yisroel Rabon: A Funeral
    • Yisroel Rabon: Pain
    • Simkha Shayevitch: The Child In Autumn
    • Simkha Shayevitch: Dreams of Death
    • Simkha Shayevitch: In My Hands
    • Simkha Shayevitch: Song Of A Mother
    • Simkha Shayevitch: A Cello Plays
    • Simkha Shayevitch: At Night
    • Simkha Shayevitch: Evening
    • Simkha Shayevitch: Harvest Song
    • Simkha Shayevitch: My Way
    • Simkha Shayevitch: October
    • Simkha Shayevitch: The Night
    • Simkha Shayevitch: The Sun Captured
    • Abraham Vaynman: Lament
    • Unknown: I Sit Near Still Waters
    • Unknown: Night
    • Yoseph Kirman: After The Blockade
    • Yoseph Kirman: The Eyes Remain Open
    • Shmuel Marvil: The Street
    • Avrom Sutskever: Oh My Brother
    • Yitzkhok Katznelson: Woe To You
    • Unknown: In Spring There Lies A Trace
  • Theme 5: Tradition, Faith, Protest
  • Appendix A: Relevant Material Not Found In The Ringelblum Archives
  • Appendix B: Brief Biographies of Authors
  • Index: By Authors
  • About The Author
  • Contact Us
  • Site Credits

Each work in this collection may be copied freely but not modified in any way under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License, and each copy requires attribution to the original authors themselves for the Yiddish text and Sarah Traister Moskovitz for the translations to English.