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Abraham Sutzkever

Born

in Smarhoń, Belarus

July 15, 1913

Died

January 10, 2010

Genre

Poetry

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Abraham (Avrom) Sutzkever was one of the tiny percentage of creative artists who lived through and survived the devastation. He was one of fewer still who lived through it as a writer, producing between 1941 and 1945 some of his finest poems. The works of those years, written not in retrospect, and not at a distance, but during the daily wretchedness of ghetto life and under constant threat of death, constitute an exceptional instance in the history of art. Sutzkever knew that the writing of Yiddish verse could satisfy the demands of art. His ghetto poems are the more significant because they are not only expressions of the will to resist, but in their subtlety and power, obdurate proofs of survival in a body of work that stands beyond circ ...more

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Average rating: 4.41 · 157 ratings · 14 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors

	Iš Vilniaus geto by Abraham Sutzkever, Abraomas Suckeveris 4.32 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Žaliasis akvariumas by Abraham Sutzkever, Mindaugas Kvietkauskas (Translator) 4.60 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony by Abraham Sutzkever, Justin D. Cammy (Translation), Avraham Novershtern (Afterword) 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poetry and Prose by Abraham Sutzkever, Barbara Harshav (Translator) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dešimt eilėraščių 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kapo vaikas by Abraham Sutzkever, Laurynas Katkus (vertėjas), Akvilė Grigoravičiūtė (pažodiniai vertimai) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essential Prose by Abraham Sutzkever, Zackary Sholem Berger (Goodreads Author) (Translation) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony by Abraham Sutzkever, Justin D. Cammy (Editor), Avraham Novershtern (Afterword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Siberia by Abraham Sutzkever, Jacob Sonntag (Translator), Marc Chagall (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1961	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still my word sings: Poems by Abraham Sutzkever, Heather Valencia (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
― Abraham Sutzkever

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“I don't know whether there is a God but there sure is someone acting out of spite”
― Abraham Sutzkever, Zielone Akwarium

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“What potion should I give the night so she’ll always wonder?

What potion should I give the night so she’ll always wonder?

Her pounding heart’s a rider galloping from the burning wood.

Maybe my pharmacist is awake the next street over?

In a crucible of bone, snake tears mixed with herbs.

Should I hurry? Call the doctor? A heart like hers is rare.

And to tell the truth, if it shattered, what would I do?”
― Abraham Sutzkever

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