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Synopsis
I Keep Recalling is a translation of the Holocaust poems of Jacob Glatstein, generally considered one of the two or three greatest Yiddish poets of all time. Glatstein was the co-founder of the "In Zikh" (Introspectivist) school of Yiddish poetry, which sought to tap the poet's emotional response to the world and its events. His Holocaust poems have been hailed as a major historical document and a literary achievement of the highest order; they gave voice to the anguish of both the victims in Europe and the helpless onlookers in America and elsewhere. This translation, by Dr. Barnett Zumoff, has itself been characterized as "a tour-de-force and a major contribution to Jewish culture."
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Language Notes
Text: English, Yiddish
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Bergen-Belsen survivors culled the Holocaust poems from Glatstein's last six volumes of poetry to make up this collection that commemorates Jewish strength, horror, and fortitude and that honors the inestimable losses of the past. Throughout the dual-language (Yiddish and English translation) volume, Glatstein asks, "How can a living Jew forgive?" and then answers, "How are we to remember and live?" He uses traditional Jewish elegy and lamentation, says Emanuel Goldsmith in his introduction, to give "voice to the anguish of the victims but also to the suffering and mourning of American Jews who devoured newspapers and radio broadcasts with horror throughout those nightmarish years." But the poet also finds consolation in a memorial service and exalts that "in death they've thrown open the gates of the ghetto . . . they've given us faith." He summarizes, "It's not that they died for us, / But that we are condemned to live for them, / So that their death may flow in our veins, / So that we may horrify the world." Whitney Scott
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- PublisherKtav Pub & Distributors Inc
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0881254290
- ISBN 13 9780881254297
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages289
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