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- Title
"Walk through Words as through a Minefield" Avraham Sutzkever z"l.
- Authors
Novershtern, Avraham
- Abstract
The article presents a biography of the Yiddish poet Avraham Sutzkever. He was born in Smorgon, Lithuania in 1913 and describes his early life as a writer in the city of Vilna, Lithuania. He lived through the Nazi occupation of Vilna during World War II and used his personal experiences during the Holocaust to reflect on Jewish history and culture in his poetry. He died in Tel Aviv, Israel on January 20, 2010.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; SUTZKEVER, Abraham, 1913-2010; YIDDISH poets; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945, in literature; POETRY (Literary form); GERMAN occupation, Lithuania, 1941-1944
- Publication
Yad Vashem Studies, 2010, Vol 38, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0084-3296
- Publication type
Biography