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Daniel Kraft

@djkraft13

Writer/translator/educator; yiddish poetry in translation at danielkraft.substack.com; co-founder/editor @gashmiusmag

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Today's poem is one of my favorites by A. Leyeles - really, it's one of my favorites from this whole newsletter so far. danielkraft.substack.com/p/worms?sd=pf

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Every yiddish memoir is called some vanilla shit like "zikhroynes" (memories) or "iberlebungen" (experiences) or "bleter fun a togbukh" (pages from a diary) & is about the craziest shit you've ever heard Did they have to pay extra for adjectives? Is there a secret history here?

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I'm really looking forward teaching the first session on "The Poetry of Jewish Memory" for the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, tomorrow, 4/18, at 8:00 pm EST And grateful as always to Drisha for giving me this opportunity. You can register here: 5783.drisha.org/sefira

I'm really looking forward teaching the first session on "The Poetry of Jewish Memory" for the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education,  tomorrow, 4/18, at 8:00 pm EST And grateful as always to Drisha for giving me this opportunity. You can register here: 5783.drisha.org/sefira
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In my latest newsletter, I discuss the remarkable life, and share two of my favorite poems, of the great Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim, who died last month at the age of 98 - danielkraft.substack.com/p/two-poems-by…

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For the latest edition of my newsletter, I translate and discuss the classic Memento Mori by the great, non-conformist modernist, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern: open.substack.com/pub/danielkraf…

For the latest edition of my newsletter, I translate and discuss the classic Memento Mori by the great, non-conformist modernist, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern: open.substack.com/pub/danielkraf…
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Gashmius Magazine is thrilled to announce the release of our Volume 2, featuring essays, poetry, and art from an amazing group of contributors, all with our vision of a progressive, radically accessible Jewish mysticism in mind. Check it out at gashmiusmagazine.com/volume2

Gashmius Magazine is thrilled to announce the release of our Volume 2, featuring essays, poetry, and art from an amazing group of contributors, all with our vision of a progressive, radically accessible Jewish mysticism in mind. Check it out at gashmiusmagazine.com/volume2
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"I want to be explicit that, when we talk about this kind of state-sponsored genocidal violence, “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes,” as the saying goes." A terrific post by Daniel Kraft on the Night of the Murdered Poets--August 12th: danielkraft.substack.com/p/shards

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װאָס איז דען דאָס גאַנצע לעבן אונדזערס, אױב נישט עבר־נאָסטאַלגיע מיט צוקונפֿט־פּאָטענצן? No-context Aaron Zeitlin for your Wednesday.

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I haven't been posting much here on Twitter or X or whatever in a while, for all kinds of reasons. But as we move through Elul, I'm sharing this haunting poem by the great Rokhl Korn, written when she was a refugee in Fergana, Uzbekistan - danielkraft.substack.com/p/elul-by-rokh…

I haven't been posting much here on Twitter or X or whatever in a while, for all kinds of reasons. But as we move through Elul, I'm sharing this haunting poem by the great Rokhl Korn, written when she was a refugee in Fergana, Uzbekistan - danielkraft.substack.com/p/elul-by-rokh…
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"We need to be attentive to the ways that the Romani Holocaust is already part of Jewish history and Jewish institutions are already part of the Roma story." Read Daniel Kraft's conversation with historian Ari Joskowicz about his recent book, Rain of Ash. jewishcurrents.org/recognizing-th…