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Hard cover, $19.95
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The Witness Trees
The Witness Trees tells through poetry, eyewitness accounts,
and a moving historical narrative the tangled web of Lithuanian
Jewish history. David Wolpe, a powerful Yiddish poet and writer,
reports on the events during the summer of 1941 when the Jews
of Keidan, a Lithuanian shtetl (village), were systematically
massacred by local townspeople. Dr. Dovid Katz provides a historical
context to the rich heritage and contributions by Lithuanian Jews
and Keidaners to Jewish cultural and religious life dating back
to the fourteenth century. Myra Sklarew, a highly acclaimed poet,
expecting to travel back to her homeland of Keidan, Lithuania,
finds herself traveling back in time to the pain and death lying
beneath the pastoral beauty of the countryside, making corporeal
what had been a shadow tracking her since early childhood.
The Witness Trees
Poetry by Myra Sklarew
Translated into Yiddish by David Wolpe
Introduction by Dovid Katz
Cornwall Press, 2000
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