Re: [Cz-L] Poetry

What proves his Jewish roots is the fact that the analogy he is using was
mentioned in a Talmudic saying : "Even if all the trees of the forest should
have turned into pens, and all the seas into ink I would not have been able
to describe Thy splendor"
 Yosef Eshet

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From: <hedbren_at_zahav.net.il>
To: "RUTH GOLD" <glasgold_at_bellsouth.net>; <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Poetry

> Thanks Ruth for this poem, Your translation is more than perfect,
> superperfect, I did not know that Aurel Baranga was Jewish...and I lived
> in these times in Romania...
> Have a nice Pesach
> Hedwig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RUTH GOLD
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 10:01 PM
> To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: [Cz-L] Poetry
>
>
> Since we are now in the mood for poetry, I have a small contribution to
> make.
> I hope you'll forgive my not-so-perfect translation.
>
>
> Transnistria
>
> Daca toate frunzele pamantului s-ar face hirtie, daca toate marile s-ar
> preface
> in cerneala, daca toate padurile s-ar preface in condee, daca toate
> vietuitoarele ar scrie indeajuns... Scriu despre supraqvietuitorii dela
> Vapniarca (Transnistria) si as vrea ca fiecare litera sa arda, sa arda ca
> ochii
> lor rataciti, ca fetele lor devastate, ca miinile tremurinde, ca pasii lor
> tirsiti, paralitici, ca trupurile lor inconvoiate si frinte.
>
> Aurel Baranga ( His real name was Leibovici, born 1913 dramaturgist, has
> been
> compared to the poet Caragiale.)
>
>
>
>
>
> Transnistria
> If all the leaves on earth would turn into paper, if all the seas would
> turn
> into ink, if all the forests would transform into pencils, if all the
> living
> would write enough... I write about the survivors ofVapniarka and I would
> like
> that every letter (character) should burn, should burn like their stray
> eyes,
> like their devastated faces, their trembling hands, their dragging feet,
> paralyzed, like their bent and broken bodies...
>
> Translated by Ruth Gold
>
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> Ruth Glasberg Gold
>
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>
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