We’re setting up for a couple May Day poems.
Leivick doesn’t break fully with the Soviets— and was quite popular in Russia, visiting in 1925— until 1939 and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (the initial break was in 1929, and the Freyheyt walkout over Hebron) #Yiddish
Leivick doesn’t break fully with the Soviets— and was quite popular in Russia, visiting in 1925— until 1939 and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (the initial break was in 1929, and the Freyheyt walkout over Hebron) #Yiddish
The May Day poems also continue beyond that point, through ‘In Treblinka bin ikh nit geven’ and there is even in that volume a temporary mending of fences, it seems, with the Soviets when they are anti-Nazi.
For even more in that vein, one can look at Ruth Wisse’s article and the following exchange of letters with Samuel Leivick in the pages of the Jewish Review of Books: jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/98/dr… and jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/154/l…
Leivick also knew fellow Belarusian poet, Moyshe Kulbak (photo Yivo), who would be given a show trial and murdered in late 1937.
As he knew writers who would be murdered by the regime in 1952 (Leivick and Markish, Yivo).
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