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May 15, 2020
Three Yiddish Poems of Nature and Longing
“The ever-resounding links of the golden chain.”
Born in the shtetl of Koydanov, in what is now Belarus, Sarah Reisen (1885–1975) was a member of one of the most outstanding families in modern Yiddish literature: her brother Avraham was a folklorist and prolific author of short stories, while her other brother, Zalman, was a cultural historian and theorist of Jewish nationalism. Sarah spent her life engaged in a number of literary endeavors, among them translating the Russian classics into Yiddish, but she is best known for her poetry. Herewith, one of three of her lyric poems, newly translated by Eli Jany:
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Three Yiddish Poems of Nature and Longing
“The ever-resounding links of the golden chain.”