One of the greatest Yiddish-language poets, Jacob Glatstein addressed the dark fate that he anticipated for European Jewry in his fiction and verse even before World War II began. Here, in an interview with the poet and critic Abraham Tabatchnik—conducted in Central Park in 1955—he describes the “mission” of the Yiddish poet after the Holocaust and lays out his own theory of the history of Yiddish poetry. (Video, ten minutes. Yiddish with English subtitles. A recording of Glatstein reading “Good night, world,” one of his best-known poems, can be found at the link below.)
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