[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements--New poems by Norbert Hirschhorn

[Victor Bers]

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 Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements

June 13, 2013 [Sorry: too late for celebration of the book
launch--Untershames]

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From: Norbert Hirschhorn <bertzpoet at yahoo.com>

Dear friends,

I am pleased to announce my collection of poems, due this month from
Holland Park Press, London, from where it may be ordered directly.
www.hollandparkpress.co.uk. The publisher describes the work:

"To Sing Away the Darkest Days is the culmination of a five-year project
which saw Norbert Hirschhorn source more than one thousand Yiddish songs
from several archives and from collections on the Internet, as well as from
CDs.

Ruth Rubin, pioneer archivist of Yiddish folksong, wrote: ‘Yiddish
folksongs are in a vernacular closest to the popular speech of the folk.’
For Norbert they helped him to rediscover and trace his own Jewish cultural
history. However, some of the songs ‘spoke’ to him as a poet and begged for
a new translation, or ‘re-imagining’ as he calls it, into English poems.
The resulting collection of poems tells the story of the emigrant, the Jew
in the Diaspora. Norbert adds his unique view: he personalises the
Diaspora, and at the same time brings a vanished culture back to life. The
collection is funny and poignant and captures the Jewish experience, but
the struggle and questioning of the poet add an extra dimension. To Sing
Away the Darkest Days is not only a wonderful collection of poems but also
a unique historical document."

The book launch takes place on 11 June, 7pm (free admission) at the London
Jewish Cultural Centre, Ivy House, 94-96 North End Road, London NW11 7SX.


Norbert Hirschhorn MD
115 Greencroft Gardens
London NW6 3PE England

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