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The remarkable poem written in Yiddsh by Yitzhak Katzenelson at the time of the Holocaust of the Jews in the second World War (1943), after which the poet and his son were murdered by the nazis. The poem is written in 15 sections, each with 15 quatrains totaling 900 lines. It describes the occupation of Warsaw by the German army and the murder of the Jews, either there or in the concentration camps where they were dispatched. The poem ends with the Jews taking up the gun that symbolizes the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This is a bi-lingual book with the Yiddish appearing next to the English.

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Itzhak Katzenelson was a Polish Jew, a teacher, poet and dramatist. He was born in 1886 in Karelichy near Minsk, and was murdered May 1, 1944 in Auschwitz. JACK HIRSCHMAN was born in The Bronx, New York City on December 13, 1933 and lives in North Beach, San Francisco with the Swedish-born poet and painter, Agneta Falk. He is an emeritus (2006-2009) Poet Laureate of that city, as well as a founding member of Its Revolutionary Poets Brigade, and likewise of the World Poetry Movement centered in Medellin, Colombia, and the League of Revolutionaries for a New America in Chicago. His masterwork are The Arcanes, three volumes of his longer poems, each book virtually 1,000 pages long. Hirschman is a staunch internationalist and has translated poets from nine languages, including more woman poets than any translator in the United States.

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