Friday 20 February 2015

SHIMEN BEN-LEVI

SHIMEN BEN-LEVI

Born in Poland, he lived through WWII in German concentration camps.  After liberation, he emigrated to the United States where he published: In yomer-tal in land fun vilde broyne bestyes (In lamentation in the land of wild brown beasts) (New York: Shimoni, 1948), 48 pp.  It is written in primitive verse in the tone of a lament following the Jewish Holocaust.

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