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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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The Wolf, Part Two

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And to the town there began to come
Jews who had been driven from other places
And they began to rebuild the ruined houses,
And, first of all...
29 hours ago

The Wolf, Part One

So why have I been worrying away at ‘Der Volf’ again? In part because of revisiting Boreysho — I do like him very much and have something else I’d like to share, at least in part, from him and his time working together with Leivick on Vokh....

2 days ago
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Transgression and Taboo

I wanted to return to a poem that I originally shared as a note on this site, because I think it’s one that requires a bit more attention and probing than just a note. I also think it works as a companion piece, in a manner of speaking, to...

6 days ago
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The Second Coming

‘Hey Bluma,’ you do not, in fact, say, ‘if there’s a Golem, where the hell is he during the whole Second World War? Isn’t that, like, the ideal time for him to have gotten up and done something? Did he just sleep through the whole thing?’...

13 days ago
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A Dream

I don’t really think it’s a particularly useful exercise to say if I love a poem or not, though I do it all the time. A reader either loves a poem on their own or learns to love it because someone more important than me said they should.

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20 days ago
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