Leah Rudnitsky was known in the literary circles of the Vilna Ghetto. Visit the Multimedia Center at the Wiesenthal Center for:
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Other translations by Karen Alkalay-Gut
and poetry
The Cultural Life of the Vilna Ghetto
by Solon Beinfeld.
Birds Are Dreaming on the Branches
Translated by Karen Alkalay-Gut from the Yiddish
Birds are dreaming on the branches.
This is the crib that stands
I saw your father running
Sleep, my darling child.
By your crib,
over your cot,
a stranger sits and sings.
crushed of joy and luck,
and your mamma,
oh, your mamma,
is never coming back.
beneath a hail of stones,
and, over the fields,
there flew
his orphaned moans.
