The Song Remains
The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand is proud to be a launch partner for ‘The Song Remains’ - an online anthology of over 160 Yiddish poems by 36 authors with English translations. The poems were written in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War, compiled by Binem Heller, and published in Warsaw in 1951.
Launch of The Song Remains - 160+ Yiddish poems
An online event.
Tuesday, 21 May 2024 at 7 AM NZST / Monday, 20 May 2024 at noon PDT.
The English translations are by Dr Sarah Traister Moskovitz, a 96-year-old native Yiddish speaker and professor emerita from California State University, Northridge. Dr Moskovitz hopes that the collection will be a lasting legacy for the Yiddish language, and a tribute to the poets and unique culture so brutally destroyed by the Nazis. She says, “We can all be proud and strengthened by the writers in this collection of poems, who found their own strength and courage in the worst circumstances imaginable. And yet, despite everything, they were still able to create beautiful, creative, meaningful, and honest poetry.”
Learn more and register at: thesongremains.org