Monday 10 August 2015

ALTER GILER

ALTER GILER
            “A young man, a shopkeeper who would stay in his shop and weigh out a pound of salt and a half-ounce of pepper—and between the salt and the pepper, he’d weigh and measure a superb poem.”  He contributed for fifteen years to Volkovisker lebn (Volkovisk [Wołkowysk] life).  He was murdered by the Nazis during WWII in Volkovisk.


Source: A. Kalir, Volkovisker yizker-bukh (Volkovisk memory book) (New York, 1949), pp. 507-12.

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