Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith

Seth L. Wolitz

Gale Chair of Jewish Studies

Professor of Comparative Literature

University of Texas at Austin

This edition of Aaron Zeitlin's "Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith" introduces the English reader to the work of this remarkable author who embodies the broad culture of Polish Jewry that was virtually annihilated during the Holocaust. Morris Faierstein has done an admirable job in rendering Zeitlin's rich poetry into moving and powerful English, supplemented with annotations to the rich palette of mystical, biblical and religious allusions that illuminate Zeitlin's writing. This is a worthy introduction to the works of a prolific author who collaborated with his younger contemporary, Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Prof. Robert Moses Shapiro

Judaic Studies Department

Brooklyn College of the City University of New York