Abraham Sutzkever

Abraham Sutzkever
Abraham Sutzkever
	Abraham Sutzkever, 1950
Native name	אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער
Born	15 July 1913; Smorgon, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Smarhon, Belarus)
Died	20 January 2010 (aged 96); Tel Aviv, Israel
Occupation	Poet
Language	Yiddish
Nationality	Israeli
Notable works	Lider (Songs); Valdiks (Of the Forest); Geheymshtot (Secret City); Di goldene keyt (The Golden Chain);
Notable awards	Israel Prize (1985)
Spouse	Freydke Sutzkever (died 2003)
Children	2

Abraham Sutzkever (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער, romanized: Avrom 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]

^ "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.
^ 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.

[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.

[nytimes-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.

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