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The destruction of Trochenbrod, the only exclusively Jewish town outside of Israel, is a mostly overlooked Holocaust tragedy. This book pulls together a collection of extraordinary poems, essays, and letters by Yisrael Beider, a son of Trochenbrod and a descendant of generations of rabbis tracing back to the MAHARAL. Beider perished in the Holocaust, but these writings survived to become rare documents to emerge from Trochenbrod. Although Beider published portions of his work in prominent Hebrew and Yiddish papers, most of his work remains unknown. This translation assembled the entire surviving collection to shed light on Beider's literary and historical work, and to provide an eyewitness account of life in Trochenbrod and western Ukraine between the two world wars.
Contents
Yisrael Beider and His Literary Work
Trochenbrod, the Town That Was
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Text
1. POEMS
Nature
A Winter Poem
From the Valley
Cloudlets
Winter in the Countryside
On the Farm
Frost
Between Trickles
A Note from the Countryside
Alone
Alien [country]
On the Way to the Village
In the Village
The Old Doc
Beneath the Crescent Moon
Spring Has Run Away . . .
The Land of Israel
On the Edge
Who Is the Hebrew!
Excursion in the Homeland
Lamentations
"Der Pastukh"—The Shepherd
Family
Father's Home
Work
Sarah is Departing
Motherly Bliss
The Photograph
To Ya'akov
You are Bar Mitzvah . . .
Oppression
When the Eighth Candle Dies Out
The Orphan
From the Abyss
On the Water
In a Foreign Land
At the Ice Rink
The Fair
Old Age
Old Age
At My Setting Sun
Miscellaneous
Untitled
The Jealousy Is Eating Me
Untitled
If for Each Failure of Mine
Ashmedai
2. ESSAYS
Jerusalem
The Modest One
Today Is Tisha'a be-Av
The Abbreviator, of Blessed Memory (A Khasidic Story)
Rambam and His Gentile Adversary (A Folk Legend)
A Drop in the Sea (From the Recent Past)
Without Bialik
A Jewish Heart . . . Memories from the Recent Past
3. LETTERS
Letter to His Brother Hayim
Letter to Hayim
Letter to His Brother Hayim or Hagai
Letter to Hayim
Letter to an Unnamed Friend in Międzyrzecz
Letter to His Brother Shimon
Letter to His Brothers Zalman and Naftali
[on the Death of Shimon]
Eulogy
Letter to His Mother
References
Appendix: Yisrael Beider's Family Tree, June 28, 2012
