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This Russian Jew wrote mainly in Yiddish as a young man but changed to Hebrew after he moved to Palestine. A great poet by any measure but not always accessable through translation.
"Look how the night envelops us, we are crushed
By darkness we grope like the blind;
Something has gone wrong, no-one knows what.
No-one sees, no-one tells,
If the sun has risen for us or set--
And chaos is all around , all around terrible chaos
and no escape" from Davar {The Word}
Bialek witnessed Russian pogroms in Bessarabia (modern Romania), but his sombre simple words seem to speak as much of the future as his own time.
"Look how the night envelops us, we are crushed
By darkness we grope like the blind;
Something has gone wrong, no-one knows what.
No-one sees, no-one tells,
If the sun has risen for us or set--
And chaos is all around , all around terrible chaos
and no escape" from Davar {The Word}
Bialek witnessed Russian pogroms in Bessarabia (modern Romania), but his sombre simple words seem to speak as much of the future as his own time.
