Abraham Sutzkever

Abraham Sutzkever
Abraham Sutzkever, 1950
Abraham Sutzkever, 1950
Native name
אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער
Born(1913-07-15)15 July 1913
Smorgon, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Smarhon, Belarus)
Died20 January 2010(2010-01-20) (aged 96)
Tel Aviv, Israel
OccupationPoet
LanguageYiddish
NationalityIsraeli
Notable works
  • Lider (Songs)
  • Valdiks (Of the Forest)
  • Geheymshtot (Secret City)
  • Di goldene keyt (The Golden Chain)
Notable awardsIsrael Prize (1985)
SpouseFreydke Sutzkever (died 2003)
Children2
Abraham Sutzkever, 1962
Abraham Sutzkever, 1962

Abraham Sutzkever (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער, romanizedAvrom Sutskever; Hebrew: אברהם סוצקבר; July 15, 1913 – January 20, 2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet.[1] The New York Times wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet of the Holocaust."[2]

  1. ^ "The Poetry of Abraham Sutzkever: The Vilno poet, reading in Yiddish" (product blurb for CD, Folkways Records). The Yiddish Voice store. yiddishstore.com. Archived from the original on March 23, 2006.
  2. ^ Cohen, Arthur A. (17 June 1984). "God the Implausible Kinsman". The New York Times (review of David G. Roskies, Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture). Retrieved 2010-04-02.