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Diary of a Bad Yiddishist

Bluma Lange

Occasional and eclectic forays into the life and works of Yiddish poet, playwright and journalist H. Leivick (1888-1962)

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You Are Drawn To Me

You are drawn to me
Like lightening to the earth.
Until the first, intoxicating rain
I am like the new-ploughed...
4 days ago

Yidishe Dikhterins

One of the greatest disappointments for me, at least in the materials that I have access to, it the dearth of material by Leivick about his female contemporaries. His reviews, comments and engagements in his prose articles for Tog are almos...

8 days ago

Once, years ago, in Minsk Prison…

A few weeks back I had a brief grumble about Leivick’s In Tsarist Katorga and being asked to provide a cite it was autobiography and not fiction. If anything, judging from other bits that appear elsewhere, I think it’s fairly sanitised, but...

15 days ago
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At An Extraordinary Ball

Speaking of love, as I’ll be doing increasingly in weeks to come, I don’t know if anyone else likes this poem, printed in Tog on 21 June, 1942, quite as much as I do — Leivick included. It was never collected in any book.1

Leivick’s writin...

22 days ago

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...

a month ago
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    Student of Yiddish based in Scotland’s central belt. I am almost always up for a chat. If you’re looking for specific material(s), please feel free to message to discuss the particulars. Please do not send me unsolicited materials.

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