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Subject: YIDDISH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CH'VIL SCHREIBEN A POEM AUF YIDDISH, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to write a poem in yiddish
Last Line: Not quite consumed, not even %by the heat of my yiddish poem
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Poetry And Poets; Yiddish


FROM WHERE THE FEET GROW, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Curious how yiddish won't translate easily
Last Line: How charmed by my lust
Variant Title(s): Where The Feet Grow, Sel
Subject(s): Yiddish


IMPROVISATIONS ON YIDDISH, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Yiddish


JOY OF THE YIDDISH WORD, SELS., by JACOB GLATSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, let me through the joy of the yiddish word
Last Line: And you sigh in your ignited dream: %I come, I come
Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob
Subject(s): Yiddish


MAME LOSHEN, THE MOTHER TONGUE, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER                       
First Line: Yiddish, my first language, you were
Subject(s): Yiddish


MAME LOSHEN, THE MOTHER TONGUE, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yiddish, my first language, you were
Last Line: When I was a child
Subject(s): Yiddish


MAME-LOSHEN, YIDDISH, by BERNARD S. MIKOFSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long ago %we spoke a mother tongue
Last Line: They are ghosts, %once warm and loving syllables: %smoke...
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Yiddish


MORNING, by MIRIAM ULINOVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: On sabbath dawn it grows sunny and fair
Subject(s): Yiddish


MOVE ON, YIDDISH POET, by JACOB GLATSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yiddish poet %poorest of all poets
Last Line: Your crown city of safed %is waiting for you
Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yiddish


SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Yiddish


SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting
Last Line: Anything for a minute. So that's what I said. They asked me %my name and I said I've forgotten
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Yiddish


THE CHESSBOARD IS ON FIRE, by AARON FOGEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ant stood up on two legs looks like a chesspiece maybe a bishop
Last Line: Story. The story of the stories isn't a store.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolot, Jim
Subject(s): Chess; Translating & Interpreting; Yiddish


YIDDISH, by ROBERT D. FREEDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A long time ago we all sat on the trolley car
Last Line: Comfort me, little father in heaven. %my gloves, my small buttons undone
Subject(s): Yiddish


YIDDISH, by JUDITH HERZBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father sang the songs %his mother used to sing
Last Line: But it misses you
Subject(s): Jews; Yiddish


YIDDISH, by JOSEPH LEFTWICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yiddish is not dead, %to wear a shroud %a garment we never again change
Last Line: That suits her best. %she selects what she wants %from whatever is there
Subject(s): Yiddish


YIDDISH, by LAYLE SILBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the second anniversary of liberation
Last Line: Lithuanian learned from my father %it didn't matter
Subject(s): Jews - Women; Lithuania; Yiddish


YIDDISH, by S. SIMCHOVITCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yiddish, my life's crown-tongue
Last Line: To you betrothed, not to part, %that my heart be dwelling for your solitude %your sad beauty in me n
Subject(s): Yiddish


YIDDISH, by ABRAHAM SUTSKEVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shall I begin at the beginning %like abraham
Last Line: And wake the coming generations with a roar like thunder
Subject(s): Yiddish


YIDDISH BETWEEN THE ROCKS, by ISAAC GOLDKORN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some lament your imminent demise
Subject(s): Yiddish


YIDDISH FOR GOYS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With a word -- shlep, or nebish, or shlemiel --
Last Line: He used to say. That shmuck hitler could kill %a tough momzer like me?
Subject(s): Jews; Language; Yiddish


YIDDISH MUSES, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: They arrive, always, unexpected
Last Line: Than any memory its walls and domes
Subject(s): Yiddish


YIDDISH POETS, by H. LEYVIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I think about us -- yiddish poets
Last Line: And suddenly all my words are mute
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yiddish


YIDDISHKAYT, by JACOB GLATSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yiddish poets %why such yearning
Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yiddish