"Shmai Israel" poem

Identifier
irn503532
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.A.0010
  • RG-24.013.01
Dates
1 Jan 1981 - 31 Dec 1981
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503532

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

"Hear, O Israel" was written by Olga Zaslavsky on 12 July 1981. It was translated from the original Russian into Yiddish and then into English. The translator is unknown. The poem and translation were received in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Oct. 1991.

Scope and Content

Consists of "Shmai Israel" ("Hear, O Israel") written by Olga Zaslavsky. The poem, in Yiddish, relates to the massacre of Soviet Jews at Babi Yar. The poem is accompanied by a typed English translation.

People

  • Zaslavsky, Olga.

Subjects

  • Babi Yar Massacre, Ukraine, 1941.
  • Kyïv (Ukraine)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Jewish women authors.
  • Poetry.
  • Jews--Russia.

Genre

  • Poems.
  • Document
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