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Sign: Amherst - Yiddish Writers Garden - Poets, writers and researchers

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1021 West St, Amherst, MA 01002, USA
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1886-1944
יצחק קאַצענעלסאָן
דאַס ווײַסע לעבען
קאַריקאַטורן
ראַט ליך פֿון אויסגעהרגעטן ייִדישן פֿאָלק

Itzhak Katzenelson
The White Life
Caricatures
The Ode of the Murdered Jewish People

In memory of Itzhak Katzenelson, by Neil Rolde


1913-1990
אַברהם ביק
גרונט־טענדענצן פֿון רעליגיעזן סאציאליזם
וועלט און היים
חסידות מאָטיוון אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור און לעבן

Abraham Bick
Fundamental Tendencies of Religious Socialism
World and Home
Hasidic Motifs in Jewish Literature and Life

In honor of her mother, Evelyn Schanoes, by Barbara & Steven Goldstein


1898-1973
אהרן צייטלין
ברענענדיקע ערד
ווײַצמאַן דער צווייטער
יעקבֿ פֿראַנק

Aaron Zeitlin
Burning Earth
Weizmann the Second
Jacob Frank

With all his love and respect to his grandparents, Boris & Katia Baum of Montreal, Quebec, by Michael Kaminer, New York, N.Y.


1871-1942
הלל צייטלין
דער אַלף־בית פֿונעם יודענטום
געזאַנגען פֿון אין סוף
דאָס פּראָבלעם פֿון גוטס און שלעכטס

Hillel Zeitlin
The ABC of Judaism
Songs of the Endless
The Problem of Good and Evil

A gift of Rabbi Benjamin Z. Kreitman and the Gloria & Sidney Danziger Foundation


1880-1932
אליעזר שטיינבאַרג
וויאַזוי די פֿייגעלעך האָבן געלערנט חומש
משלים
דורך די ברילן

Eliezer Steinbarg
How the Birds Learned the Bible
Fables
Through Spectacles

A gift of Claudia Goldstein


1907-1972
אַברהם יהושע העשל
דער מזרח-אייראפעישער ייִד
קאָצק: אין געראַנגל פֿאַר אמתדיקייט
דער שם-המפורש מענטש

Abraham Joshua Heschel
The East-European Jew
Kotzk: In Struggle for Truth
The Mystical-Name-of-God Man

In memory of his wife, Barbara K. Wolf, by Seymour Wolf

Abraham Joshua Heschel from The Eastern European Era in Jewish History
ווי איז נאָך פֿאַראַן אַ פֿאָלק, וואָס זײַן פאפולערסטע וויגליך איז: הורה איז די בעסטע טחורה? מאַמעס חלומען איבער די וויגעלעך פֿאַרמאָך קינדערלעך די אויגן, שלאף - וועסט אם ירצע השם ווערן אַ רבי, ווערט אַ קינד געבוירן, קומען יינגלעך פון חרר אין לייענען קריאת שמע בט זמן וויגעלע אמנגעוויקלט אין אַ טלית, ווערט דאָס קינד צום ערשטן מאָל געטראָגן אין חדר ארמן, חדר יונגלעך זענען די צאן קדשים, און דער מאמעס צערטלעבקנט נאָמען פֿאַר אַ יינגעלים איז מײַן צדיקל", איז מען טאקע גרייט צו פֿאַרקויפֿן דאָס קישן פֿון קאָפּ כדי צו באַצאָלן שכרי- ליכוד, יודענעס האָרעווען זייער לעבן לאנג כדי די מענער זאָלן זין און לערנען. מען טיולט זיך מיטן ביסן- און מען גיט אַ ישיבה בחור טעג און ווען דער קול ורה מיט זמן אומעטיקער זיסקייט טראָגט זיך פֿון בית מדרש דורך די אָרעמע געסלעך טעפן יידן פֿאַרי מאטערטע אויף זייער געלעגער נחת און פֿילן אַז זוי האָק אויך דערין אַ חלק, אליין אפגעריסן פֿון לערנען און פֿאַראָן אין די דאנה פרנסה, קרייסט מען זיך מיט דעם וואס מען האַלט אויס די מי תורה יעדן יידנס אירעאל איז צו נעמען אַ ביהודה פֿאַר אַן איידעם

What other nation has a lullaby to the effect that "study is the best of wares"? At the birth of a child, the school children come and chant the Shema in unison around the cradle. The child is taken to school for the first time wrapped in a tallis. School children are referred to as "sacred sheep," and a mother’s pet name for her little boy is mayn tsadikl (my little saint). Hence, one is ready to sell all household belongings to pay tuition. Women work all their lives to enable their husbands to devote themselves to study. One shares his last morsel of food with a Yeshiva bokher. And when the melancholy sweet tone of Talmudic study penetrates the poor alleys, exhausted Jews on their pallets are delighted, for they feel they have a share in that study. Unable to devote themselves to study because of economic exigencies, they draw comfort from the thought of supporting the students. The ambition of every Jew is to have a son-in-law as a scholar.


1889-1939
ש. י. אימבער
וואָס איך זינג און זאָג
וואַלד אויס, וואַלד אײַן
רויזנבלעטער

S. J. Imber
What I Sing and Say
Out of the Forest, Into the Forest
Rose-letters

In honor of Lennie & Sydelle Israel’s 50th wedding anniversary, by friends and family
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A sign in the Yiddish Writers’ Garden, a garden located in the center of Yiddish books in the city, an institution established in 1980 with the aim of preserving literature written in Yiddish Click for sign's details

On the current plaque appear poets, writers and researchers:
Itzhak Katzenelson (1886-1944), born in Karelichy, Belarus. A poet and playwright who worked in Poland. Known for the songs "How beautiful are the nights in Canaan" and "Five years on Michael". While in a concentration camp he continued to write and was called "The mourner of the Holocaust". Murdered in the Auschwitz extermination camp.
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Abraham Bick (1913-1990), born in Kamaryn, Belarus. Rabbi, journalist and researcher of Judaism whose views were close to socialism. Lived in the United States most of his life.
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Aaron Zeitlin (1898-1973), was born in Uvaravichy, Belarus. A poet and writer who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew. Wrote plays, sketches, songs (among them the song "Donna Dona") and more. Son of Hillel Zeitlin.
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Hillel Zeitlin (1871-1942), born in Karma, Belarus. Writer and thinker who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew. Murdered in the Warsaw Ghetto, before being sent to the Treblinka extermination camp. Aharon Zeitlin’s father.
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Eliezer Steinbarg (1880-1932), born in Lipcani, Moldova. Writer and poet who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew. A large part of his work are stories and parables intended for children.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), was born in Warsaw, Poland. Researcher of Israeli thought and one of the main Jewish researchers in the United States where he arrived in 1940.
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Shmuel Yaakov Imber (1889-1942), was born in Ozerna, Ukraine. A poet, one of the pioneers of modern Yiddish poetry in Galicia. perished in the holocaust.
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