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Yiddish Holocaust Poetry with Translations from the Warsaw Ghetto Ringelblum Archives

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Shayevitch, Simkha

Poems by Simkha Shayevitch include:

  • 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)
  • 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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