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Abraham Sutzkever, right, before World War II in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Courtesy/via JTA)
July 27, 2019, 6:22 am
How poetry literally saved the life of a famed Yiddish writer
In 1944, Avraham Sutzkever and his wife Freydke had to walk through a minefield to reach the plane that would take them to freedom. They stepped to the rhythm of poetic meter
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Jacob Dinezon's dramatic Yiddish romance novel 'The Dark Young Man' was a surprise success in 1877. (Courtesy of the Jewish Storyteller Press/via JTA)
April 8, 2019, 6:02 am
A forgotten hit 1877 Yiddish romance novel has just been translated to English
Yankev Dinezon’s ‘The Dark Young Man’ sold 200,000 copies, catapulted him to fame, and made him a mentor to the top writers of his day. Then he fell into obscurity — until now
By Penny Schwartz
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