MINSK, Belarus (JTA) — When Yiddish poet Avraham Sutzkever said that poetry saved his life, he meant it more literally than many of his listeners realized. In 1944, Sutzkever and his wife, Freydke, needed to walk through a minefield to reach the plane that would take them to freedom.… Read more »
How poetry literally saved the life of a famed Yiddish writer
Abraham Sutzkever, right, before World War II in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Courtesy photo)
