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Avrom Sutzkever was a Yiddish poet who taught in the Vilna Ghetto and later fought as a partisan in the surrounding forest. After the war, he testified as a witness at the Nuremberg trials. He documented his experiences, including the death of his mother and son, through poetry. His poem “Unter dayne vayse shtern” (“Beneath Your White Stars”) was set to music and sung in the ghetto. His poetic images continue to haunt and to inspire.
lyrics
In the silence of the night
I rise to stanzas of his light
The spine of stars, Orion’s belt
A glowing ring of what he felt
Stars knew Egypt’s famined grain
Like words restored in sheaves again
His fallen star, a newborn child
Would live through him when verse was styled
Avrom waited for a hand
Beneath the pearly stars
To stretch through snowy nights
A shelter from afar
Whitened stars fell into tears
Meter marked his earthly fears
He wished for embryonic times
When stars were watered by his rhyme
From afar he sang of dust
The steady stars a heart could trust
The candles counted heaven’s space
Cantillations at his pace
Avrom waited for God’s hand
To cradle his dark fears
Past Vilna’s frozen rooftops
Searching through the years
Dear Avrom, how your poems imprint
The power of a soul’s lament
Dear Avrom, how your star-tossed lights
Refract your days and haunt my nights
Avrom waited for a hand
Beneath the white stars
To stretch through silent, snowy nights
A shelter from afar
Avrom waited for God’s hand
To cradle his dark fears
Past Vilna’s frozen rooftops
Searching through the years
From afar he sang of dust
The steady stars a heart could trust
The candles counted heaven’s space
Cantillations at his pace
The candles counted heaven’s space
Cantillations at his pace
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