Creator Bio
Herman Taube
1918–2014
Poet, novelist, and journalist Herman Taube was born in Ĺódź. He survived World War II in Soviet work camps and then as a medic in the Second Polish Army. Taube immigrated to the United States in 1947. He contributed to the Yiddish Forward and the Washington Jewish Week, and served on the international executive board of the World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Ne’ilah
Wherever we stand to lift our eyes to heaven, that place is a Holy of Holies.—S. AnskyThe sun descending settlingon the roof of the synagogue.The cantor faces the open Ark,His exhausted voice sounds…