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Hershele Danielovitch: Who Can Know What I Lack

Who Can Know What I Lack
by Hershele Danielovitch

Who can know what I lack
What torments me, what delights

What tortures me, Woe!
in the depths of me

Something I feel touching me
how it frosts and freezes

how I fever cold and hot
soaked in damp of sweat

How my body to its core
is an open deep felt sore

and it presses, burns and scalds
as I die step by step

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• Contents

  • Introduction
  • Theme 1: Nature
  • Theme 2: Home, Love, Life
  • Theme 3: Ghetto, Hunger, Struggle
    • Unknown-Solomon: Fragment-For This I Would Need Strength
    • Berman L. The Prezes Among Children
    • Berman: L: To Work
    • Horvitz, Ber: From the Poem “Bread”
    • Unknown Author: Moes “Money”
    • Yitzkhak Viner: Let It Be Quiet In My Room
    • Yitzkhak Viner: My Childhood
    • Miriam Ulinover: Girl Without Soap
    • Miriam Ulinover: Girl Without a Comb
    • Moishe Kaufman: Carry Me Little Boat
    • Miriam Ulinover: Girl All Alone
    • Perets Opochinsky: Autumn Evening
    • Yitzkhok Katznelson: Der Bal
    • Peretz Opochinski: Homeless
    • Perets Opochinski: Evening
    • Peretz Opochinski: Poverty
    • Pesakh Vayland: Very Honored Director
    • Moishe Kaufman: Bitter Life
    • Kalman Lis: Mountain Theme
    • Hershele Danielovitch: My Wife and Children are Starving
    • Hershele Danielovitch: Who Can Know What I Lack
    • Unknown: Posts
    • Unknown: It’s Burning
    • Unknown: In Storm and Dust
    • Yitzkhak Viner: Good It Is To Have Two Eyes
    • Unknown: Like A Herd Of Oxen
    • Moishe Kaufman: The Sun Rises
    • Yitzkhok Katzenelson: The Day of My Great Disaster
  • Theme 4: Death, Anger, Mourning
  • 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.