[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--Sutskevers a lid: translation and recording

[Victor Bers]

Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements

May 18, 2010

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From: "janine.beichman" <firebird1878 at gmail.com>
Date:Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:21:53 +0900
Subject: Sutskevers a lid

I would like to know where I can find an English translation of this poem 
and, if possible, a recording of it being read aloud in Yiddish. The post 
dated April 12 had the first stanza (see below) in English and the rest in 
Yiddish. Thank you.

You say: There is no God. No world creator.
If so, my friend, it seems, the miracle is greater:
He isn't and created all that isn't, all that is,
Light and shade, rainbows of madness, all are his:
[...]

Janine Beichman
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