Diary of a Bad Yiddishist
Bluma LangeOccasional and eclectic forays into the life and works of Yiddish poet, playwright and journalist H. Leivick (1888-1962)
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My Parents’ House
This essay is found collected in the book Esayen un Redes (1963), though with an incorrect publication date of 1947. The date of Shloyme Hurvitz-Zalkes’ article places this piece in 1948, which is mostly absent from the NLI scans, so I can’...
Mid-Term Break
Picking up where I left off — and hopefully a less footnote-mad affair — with Seamus Heaney and Leivick.
Please note, this is purely play on my part, or a glimpse into the way that my rather freely-associative mind works, so let me clarif...
Digging
In another life, before I was a terrible jargonist, I was doing a PhD in Irish literature — so you’ve very narrowly been spared the Diary of a Disgruntled (Defrocked?) Joycean and pictures of my four different copies of Ulysses.1
But I don...
Leivick in Mexico, Part Nine
Our last instalment. I do wonder if more were planned — after all, Leivick spends four articles on just the train journey there. But the next article he publishes in Tog is about the suicide of Szmul Zygielbojm. Understandably, that’s an ea...
A Few Words on Kaczerginski
The Yiddish Book Center sent round their latest mailer today — the anniversary of the beginning of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto — on the writer, partisan and zammler Shmerke Kaczerginski, with a link to the memorial book in his honour....
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