Inheritance (Yerushe)

This collection brings together for the first time in English the work of Peretz Markish, one of the most gifted and remarkable Jewish poets if the Soviet Union. Suffused with a consciousnes of suffering, homelessness, and inevitably the Holocaust, these moderist poems are meditative, elegiac, and prophetic in tone, and touch on the themes of loss, loneliness, displacement, war, and the yearning for renewal. Inextricably bound up with Markish's Eastern European Jewish identity, they are also intensely personal, modern, and universal. Bilingual edition - English/Yiddish.