Aaron Zeitlin was a living cruse of sacred oil saved from the
Holocaust. Wracked by guilt and despair for having survived by
chance, Aaron Zeitlin, a Yiddish poet of religious intensity,
reconfirmed his faith while memorializing Polish Jewry and his lost
family. In Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith, Morris
Faierstein succeeds in bringing the reader closer to the unique
vision and verse of Zeitlin's afflicted existence. He masterfully
illuminates the images and allusions, whether Talmudic, kabalistic
or hasidic, that inform and enrich the poetry of Aaron Zeitlin.
Faierstein chose the texts he translates with esthetic sensibility
and brings across their delicate nuances of insight and emotional
challenges. This volume throws open a wholly new area of Jewish
poetry, a distinct spiritual perspective and a shared human
expression of both the faith and grief of someone faced with the
obliteration of his home, family and people.
Seth L. Wolitz
Gale Chair of Jewish Studies
Professor of Comparative Literature
University of Texas at Austin
This edition of Aaron Zeitlin's "Poems of the Holocaust and
Poems of Faith" introduces the English reader to the work of this
remarkable author who embodies the broad culture of Polish Jewry
that was virtually annihilated during the Holocaust. Morris
Faierstein has done an admirable job in rendering Zeitlin's rich
poetry into moving and powerful English, supplemented with
annotations to the rich palette of mystical, biblical and religious
allusions that illuminate Zeitlin's writing. This is a worthy
introduction to the works of a prolific author who collaborated
with his younger contemporary, Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Prof. Robert Moses Shapiro
Judaic Studies Department
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
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