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Great Yiddish Poetry Comes to the Stage
Avraham Sutzkever’s Night Stories.
Since today’s newsletter began with Yiddish literature and the Holocaust, it will end there too. Ari Hoffman reviews Night Stories, a recent theatrical production based on the poems of Avraham Sutzkever. Herewith, his description of one of those poems:
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Expedience, not ideology.
Great Yiddish Poetry Comes to the Stage
Avraham Sutzkever’s Night Stories.