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Avrom Sutzkever (1913-) Frozen Jews Have you seen, in fields of snow, frozen Jews, row on row? Blue marble forms lying, Not breathing, not dying. Somewhere a flicker of a frozen soul-- glint of fish in an icy swell. All brood. Speech and silence are one. Night snow encases the sun. A smile glows immobile from a rose lip's chill. Baby and mother, side by side. Odd that her nipple's dried. Fist, fixed in ice, of a naked old man: the power's undone in his hand. I've sampled death in all guises. Nothing surprises. Yet a frost in July in this heat-- a crazy assault in the street. I and blue carrion, face to face. Frozen Jews in a snowy space. Marble shrouds my skin. Words ebb. Light grows thin. I'm frozen, I'm rooted in place like the naked old man enfeebled by ice. Moscow, July 10, 1944 (from the Yiddish by Cynthia Ozick) | |||||||||||||||||
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Today there are more than 6,000 descendants of Schindler`s Jews living in the USA and Europe, and many in Israel. Before the Second World War, the Jewish population of Poland was 3.5 million. Today there are between 3,000 and 4,000 left ... | |||||||||||||||||
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