Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond

In 2021, the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the massacres of Jews at Babyn Yar. The present collection brings together for the first time the responses to the tragic events of September 1941 by Ukrainian Jewish and non-Jewish poets of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, presented here in...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2023]
Series:Harvard library of Ukrainian literature
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Summary:In 2021, the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the massacres of Jews at Babyn Yar. The present collection brings together for the first time the responses to the tragic events of September 1941 by Ukrainian Jewish and non-Jewish poets of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, presented here in the original and in English translation by Ostap Kin and John Hennessy. Written between 1941 and 2018 by over twenty poets, these poems belong to different literary canons, traditions, and time frames, while their authors come from several generations. Together, the poems in Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond create a language capable of portraying the suffering and destruction of the Ukrainian Jewish population during the Holocaust as well as other peoples murdered at the site
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (160 pages)
ISBN:9780674271739
DOI:10.4159/9780674271739

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