Poetry

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Writing poetry helps me process the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust

As the son of two Holocaust survivors, I have tried to give voice to the dead in my poems, to comfort ghosts, and to provide a memorial to the millions who have none.

By Menachem Z. Rosensaft April 6, 2021 8:03 am

Lena Dunham says she connected to Judaism through Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai

The "Girls" creator said she has "fallen in love" with his work, but still isn't going to temple.

October 1, 2017 9:54 am

A Jewish Cult Poet and His Famous Anti-Semitic Friend

If you’re familiar with Ezra Pound, the king of modernist poetry, then you’re probably aware of his notorious anti-Semitism. What you might not know is that a Jewish Marxist poet with a cult following named Louis Zukofsky was one of his good friends. Born in 1904 to Orthodox Lithuanian immigrants on the Lower East Side, […]

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