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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Fists
A bit more of my own mischief, carried over from last week.
I vaguely knew that in addition to running Shriftn, the Sholem Aleichem youth organisation’s journal, together with Daniel Leivick, the actor David Opatoshu had written a collecti...
Mischief
I’ll never get to translate Opatoshu even semi-formally, and I don’t poke too hard at my permission-ish for Leivick for fear of having it revoked, but please enjoy my decidedly under-the-table efforts at Englishing some born of affection (s...
Yom Kippur, 1954
Other pieces from or connected to October of 1954: Izi Kharik, attending shul for Kol Nidre, Leivick’s poem dedicated to Opatoshu, his essay marking Opatoshu’s first yahrzeit and the aftermath of the Castle Bravo atomic test.
Octobe...
On An Old Hill
Unlike many of his colleagues, H. Leivick never really translated other works. Borrowed from them — certainly, but only really from other Yiddish texts or from translations into Yiddish. Even when citing the Tanakh, it’s typically Yehoash’s...
In Tsarist Katorga
If I’ve ever hesitated in these virtual pages to call Oyf Tsarisher Katorge (1959) purely autobiography, it’s primarily on the basis of Leivick’s own statements about the way he works, his stated view on what an author should put on the pag...
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Student of Yiddish based in Scotland’s central belt. If you’re looking for specific material(s), please feel free to message to discuss the particulars.
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