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Yiddish Holocaust Poetry with Translations from the Warsaw Ghetto Ringelblum Archives

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Lis, Kalman

Poems by Kalman Lis include:

  • A Guest At Home
  • A Letter And An Answer
  • I Sing A Song Of Rosy Faith
  • Little Hands
  • Mountain Theme
  • Why Are You Silent World

Contents

  • ►Introduction
    • Preface by Samuel Kassow
    • Forward by Michael Berenbaum
    • Author’s note
  • ►Theme 1: Nature
    • Zusman Segalovitch: Like a Miracle
    • Eliezer Grinberg: Summer Mornings By The Sea
    • Ber Horvitz: Doctors
    • Moishe Kaufman: Spring Has Come
    • Shmuel Yacov Imber: The Grass is More Beautiful
    • Yoseph Rubenshteyn: Spring In Town
    • Pesakh Vayland: White Swan
    • Elkhonan Vogler: Two Birch Trees Beside The Road
    • Nokhem Yud: The River
    • Nokhem Yud: The Young Tree
    • Raizl Zhikhlinski: Rain
    • Moishe Kaufman: Dusk
    • Moishe Kaufman: The Worms Have Ruined
    • Unknown: Nights
    • Ber Horvitz: The Sky Is Gray
    • Simkha Shayevitch: Balad of the White Night
    • Peretz Opochinsky: Winter
    • Zusman Segalovitch: Not Everyone Comes Here
  • ►Theme 2: Home, Love, Life
    • Miriam Ulinover: Girl With Bagel
    • Miriam Ulinover: Small Antiques
    • Kalman Lis: A Guest at Home
    • Ber Horovitz: Bal Shem Tov in the Mountains
    • Ber Horovitz: The Maid Mar
    • Yehuesh–Shlomo Blumgarten: Folk Theme
    • Simkha Shayevitch: Afternoon Prayer
    • Rokhl Korn: A Song of Yesterday
    • Moishe Kaufman: Full of Secrets
    • Moishe Kaufman: I’ll Sing For The Sun
    • Moishe Kaufman: Without Words
    • Moishe Kaufman: A Holy Sister Dressed in Black
    • Moishe Kaufman: You’ve Forgotten
    • Ber Horvitz: Last Night In My Dream
    • Unknown: To A Girl
    • Unknown: You
    • Moishe Kaufman: The Poet
    • Simkha Segalovitch: This Song
    • Moishe Kaufman: Let There Come
    • Moishe Kaufman: Came and Went
    • Moishe Kaufman: To The Sun
    • Moishe Kaufman: Come With Me
    • Moishe Kaufman: Let The Earth Fall Apart
    • Kubi Vahl: Longing
    • Unknown: Hymn to Lonliness
    • Kalman Lis: A Letter and an Answer
    • Simkha Shayevitch: Untitled –(First Line The Girl Says)
    • Unknown: All Wives
    • Moishe Broderson: Michael
    • Moishe Broderson: The Happy Pauper
    • Moishe Broderson: Permanent Wave
    • Moishe Broderson: Stand In
    • Moishe Broderson: Farewell My Beloved
    • Moishe Broderson: Tango
    • Moishe Broderson: Waltz
    • Moishe Broderson: Duet
    • Moishe Broderson: Khavele
    • Moishe Broderson: Balagan (Bedlam)
    • Tsentos Pen Club Notes
  • ►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
    • 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
    • Agudat Israel: Good Words
    • Rifke Galin: One Pair Of Shoes
    • Class “A” Hymn-Yiddish Notebook
    • Smolar: Our School
    • Smolar-Yiddish Notebook: Thoughts Are Free
    • Moishe Kaufman: Knowledge is Power
    • Itzik Manger: And Their Little House
    • Itzik Manger: Abraham and Eliezer
    • Itzik Manger: Abraham and Sarah
    • Itzik Manger: Mother Sarah Sings A Lullaby to Isaac
    • Itzik Manger: Prayer
    • Itzik Manger: The Ballad Of The Podolyer Rabbi
    • Kadie Molodovski: For Poor Brides (translated by Hellerstein)
    • Khaim Grade: That Is Me
    • Moishe Broderson: Four Sons
    • Moishe Broderson: Declamation
    • Moishe Broderson: I Am Guilty
    • Unknown: Fate
    • Unknown: I’ve Searched And Searched
    • Unknown: To A Poor Poor Man
    • Unknown: To The Mother Of Our Generation
    • Kalman Lis: I Sing A Song Of Rosy Faith
    • Kalman Lis: World Why Are You Silent
    • Unknown: Where Is God?
    • Yitzkhok Katzenelson: Job-Page 67, Third Act
    • Yitzkhok Katzenelson: Job, Act 3 Page 83
    • Yitzkhok Katzenelson: Song Of The Radzyner
  • ►Appendix A: Relevant Material Not Found In The Ringelblum Archives
    • Yitzkhok Katzenelson: Introduction To An Evening Of Tanakh
    • Kalman Lis: Little Hands
    • Semiatitski, Khaim: Varshe
    • Shmuel Marvil: Letter To Gitterman
  • ►Appendix B: Brief Biographies of Authors
    • Korn, Rokhl
    • List of Authors Found On A Scrap Of Paper in the Milkcan
    • Berman, Leyb 1887-1944
    • Bomze, Nakhum: 1906-1954
    • Broderzon, Moishe: 1890-1956
    • Danielovitch, Hershele: 1882-1941
    • Galin, Rifka: 1890-1935
    • Grade, Khayim: 1919-1982
    • Greenberg, Eliezer: 1896-1977
    • Horowitz, Ber: 1895-1942
    • Imber, Samuel Jacob: 1889-1942
    • Katsenelson, Yitzkhok: 1885-1944
    • Kaufman, Moishe: 1908-?
    • Kharik, Izi: 1898-1937
    • Kirman, Yosef: 1896-1943
    • Korn, Rachel Herring: 1898-1982
    • Lis, Kalman: 1903-1942
    • Manger, Itzik: 1901-1969
    • Marvil, Shmuel: 1906-1943
    • Molodovsky, Kadie 1894-1975
    • Opochinski, Peretz: 1895-1942 or 1943
    • Rabon, Yisroel: 1900-1941
    • Rubinstein, Yosef: 1905-1978
    • Segalovitch, Zusman: 1884-1949
    • Semiatitski, Khaim: 1908-1943
    • Shayevitch, Simkha Bunin: 1907-1944
    • Shtoltzenberg, Abba: 1905-1941
    • Sutskever, Abraham: 1913-?
    • Ulinover, Miriam: 1890-1944
    • Vahl, Kubi: 1911-1935
    • Vayland, Pesakh G.: 1869-1942
    • Vogler,Elkhonon: 1907-1969
    • Yehuesh–Shlomo Blumgarten: 1872-1927
    • Zhikhlinski, Raisl (Rachel): 1910-2001
  • ►Appendix C: How the Ringelblum Archives were Collected, Buried, Unearthed, Conserved, and Viewed
    • This is How it Started
    • Three Wills
    • How the Ringelblum Archive was Unearthed
    • How The Materials of the Ringelblum Archives Were Conserved
    • Ruined Materials
    • A Look Into The Papers of the Ringelblum Archives
    • It was Still Warsaw
  • ▼Index: By Authors
    • Agudat Israel
    • ►Berman, L
      • The Prezes Among Children
      • To Work
    • ►Bomze, Nakhum
      • On Golden Bridge
    • ►Broderzon, Moishe
      • Declamation
      • Duet
      • Farewell My Beloved
      • Four Sons
      • I Am Guilty
      • Khavele
      • Madagascar
      • Michael
      • Permanent Wave
      • Stand In
      • Tango
      • The Happy Pauper
      • Bedlam (Balagan)
      • Waltz
    • ►Danielovitch, Hershele
      • My Wife And Children Are Starving
      • Who Can Know What I Lack
    • ►Grade, Khaim
      • That Is Me
    • ►Grinberg, Eliezer
      • Summer Mornings By The Sea
    • ►Horvitz, Ber
      • Bal Shem Tov In The Mountains
      • Doctors
      • From The Poem “Bread”
      • Last Night In My Dream
      • My Lament
      • The Maid Mar!
      • The Sky Is Gray
    • ►Imber, Shmuel Yacov
      • The Grass Is More Beautiful
    • ►Katzenelson, Yitzkhok
      • The Ball
      • The Day Of My Great Disaster
      • Woe to you
      • The Chronicle Of Hershele’s Death
      • Shlomo Jelikhovsky
      • Introduction To An Evening Of Tanakh
      • Job-pg. 67 (fragment)
      • Job-pg 83 (fragment)
      • Song Of The Radzyner
    • ►Kaufman, Moishe
      • A Holy Sister Dressed In Black
      • Bitter Life
      • Came and Went
      • Carry Me Little Boat
      • Come With Me
      • Dusk
      • Full Of Secrets
      • I’ll Sing For The Sun
      • Knowledge Is Power
      • Let The Earth Fall Apart
      • Let There Come
      • My Last Request
      • Not Chosen
      • Spring Has Come
      • The Poet
      • The Sun Rises, The Sun Shines
      • The Wine Is Bitter
      • To The Sun
      • Without Words
      • Worms Have Ruined The Corn
      • You’ve Forgotten
    • ►Kharik, Izi
      • Pass On, Pass On
    • ►Kirman, Yoseph
      • After The Blockade
      • The Eyes Remain Open
    • ►Korn, Rokhl
      • A Song Of Yesterday
    • ▼Lis, Kalman
      • A Guest At Home
      • A Letter And An Answer
      • I Sing A Song Of Rosy Faith
      • Little Hands
      • Mountain Theme
      • Why Are You Silent World
    • ►Manger, Itzik
      • And Their Little House
      • Abraham And Eliezer
      • Abraham And Sarah
      • Fever Balad
      • Mother Sarah Sings A Lullabye To Isaac
      • Night Procession
      • Prayer
      • The Ballad Of The Podolyer Rabbi
    • ►Marvil, Shmuel
      • Letter To Gitterman
      • Poem To The Gentlemen
      • The Street
    • ►Molodovsky, Kadie
      • For Poor Brides
    • ►Opochinsky, Peretz
      • Autumn Evening
      • Evening
      • Homeless
      • Poverty
      • Winter
    • ►Rabon, Israel
      • A Funeral
      • Pain
    • ►Rubenshteyn, Yosef
      • Spring In Town
    • ►Segalovitch, Zusman
      • Like A Miracle
      • Not Everyone Comes Here
      • This Song
    • ►Semiatitsky, Khaim
      • Warsaw
    • ►Shayevitch, Simkha
      • A Cello Plays A Death Song
      • A Child In Autumn
      • Afternoon Prayer
      • At Night
      • Balad Of The White Night
      • Dreams of Death
      • Evening
      • Harvest Song
      • In My Hands
      • My Way
      • October
      • Song Of A Mother Who Lost A Child In The War
      • The Girl Says (First Line)
      • The Night
      • The Sun Captured (First Line)
    • ►Shtoltzenberg, Aba
      • Boys On The Square
    • ►Smolar-Wirowski-Galin, Rifka
      • Class “A” Hymn
      • One Pair Of Shoes: Rifka Galin
      • Our School: Smolar
      • Thoughts Are Free:Yiddish Notebook (Smolar)
    • ►Sutskever, Avrom
      • Oh My Brother
    • Tsentos Pen Club Notes
    • ►Ulinover, Miriam
      • Girl All Alone
      • Girl With Bagel
      • Girl Without Comb
      • Girl Without Soap
      • Little Antiques
    • ►Unknown Authors
      • All Wives
      • Fate
      • For This I Would Nead Strength: Solomon, Age 13
      • Hymn To Loneliness
      • I’ve Searched And Searched
      • I Sit Near Still Waters
      • In Spring There Lies A Trace
      • In Storm and Dust
      • It’s Burning
      • Like A Herd Of Oxen
      • Money–Ay Moes
      • Night
      • Nights
      • Posts
      • To A Girl
      • To A Poor Poor Man
      • To The Mother Of Our Generation
      • Where Is God?
      • You
    • ►Vahl, Kubi
      • Longing
    • ►Vayland, Pesakh
      • Very Honored Director
      • White Swan
    • ►Vaynman, Abraham
      • Lament
    • ►Viner, Itchak
      • Good It Is To Have Two Eyes
      • Let It Be Quiet In My Room
      • My Childhood
      • Song Of A Milkmaid
    • ►Vogler, Alkhanon
      • Two Birch Trees Beside The Road
    • ►Yehuesh (S. Blumgarten)
      • Folk Theme
    • ►Yud, Nokhem
      • The River
      • The Young Tree
    • ►Zhikhlinski, Raizl
      • Rain
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