Two incomplete untitled collections of poems on various themes including war, Hassidism, the Jewish people and life and death

Collection 1: װי ערלעך האָט דאָס מײן ליד געמוזט זײן [How Serious My Poem Must Have Been], 25 lines, 5 stanzas; על חרבך תחיה [By Your Sword Shall You Live], 30 lines, 6 stanzas; װי פֿאַריִידישלעכט אַ פּסוק קאָן װערן [How Yiddish a Verse in a Sacred Book Can Become], 51 lines, 14 stanzas, last stanza...

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Order number: PP MS 44, Stencl, Box 7
Date(s) of creation: 1976-1978
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: PP MS 44, Stencl, Box 7
Summary: Collection 1: װי ערלעך האָט דאָס מײן ליד געמוזט זײן [How Serious My Poem Must Have Been], 25 lines, 5 stanzas; על חרבך תחיה [By Your Sword Shall You Live], 30 lines, 6 stanzas; װי פֿאַריִידישלעכט אַ פּסוק קאָן װערן [How Yiddish a Verse in a Sacred Book Can Become], 51 lines, 14 stanzas, last stanza almost entirely changed and hadnwritten; אַ שלוש־סעודות־טיש אין ניו־יאָרק (שנת תשל"ז) [Last Sabbath Meal Table in New York (year 5737)], 100 lines, 25 stanzas; קלײנע מלחמה באַלאַדע [Small War Ballad], 15 lines, 5 stanzas. Typescript. Collection 2: "אַ זמרל, אַ זמרל" [A Tune], 15 lines, 5 stanzas; "על השמינית מזמור" [On the Sheminith. A Psalm], 150 lines, 36 stanzas; אױף דער קשיא "װאָס װעט זײן װען משיח װעט קומען?" [To the Question: What Will Be When the Messiah Comes?], 24 lines, 8 stanzas. Typescript.
Extent: 20 pp.
Access status: Open
Language: Yiddish
Scripts: Hebrew
Format: Archive