The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever By Toni Bentley

By Toni Bentley

In this meticulously researched and first full-length study of interwar Yiddish culture in France

and get ready to laugh as you finally begin to understand the inner-workings of Judaism

This new publication offers facsimile images of the original manuscript

concluding with commentary regarding the potential influences on Jewish humor of later Millennials

The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever By Toni BentleyBy Avrom SutzkeverTranslated by Richard J. FeinState University of New York PressPublished in 2019 320 pages, 5 x 8 inPaperback Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever (19132010) was described by the New York Times as "the greatest poet of the Holocaust." Born in present day Belarus, Sutzkever spent his childhood as a war refugee in Siberia, returned to Poland to participate in the interwar flourishing of Yiddish culture, was confined to the Vilna ghetto