Creator Bio
Reyzl Zychlinsky
1910–2001
Born in Gombin, Poland, Reyzl Zychlinsky began her poetic career in 1928 and flourished through the 1930s, mentored by Itsik Manger and Melekh Ravitch. She moved to Warsaw and eventually escaped the Nazi occupation in 1940, marrying the psychiatrist Isaac Kanter a year later and surviving the war in the Soviet Union. With her family murdered at Chelmno, Zychlinsky moved to France and later, in 1951, to the United States. She received the Manger Prize for Yiddish Literature in 1975.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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God Hid His Face
All roads led to death,
Every road.
All winds breathed betrayal,
Every wind.
In every doorway, vicious dogs barked,
In all the doorways.
All the waters laughed at us,
All the waters.
Every night grew…
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Everything Will Remember
Everything will remember
That I was here.
The ships will be the color
Of my clothing,
The birds will use my voice for singing,
The fisherman on the rock
Will ponder my poem,
The river
Will follow my…