The Song of the Massacred Jewish People

The remarkable poem written in Yiddsh by Yitzhak Katzenelson at the time of the Holocaust of the Jews in the second World War (1943), after which the poet and his son were murdered by the nazis. The poem is written in 15 sections, each with 15 quatrains totaling 900 lines. It describes the occupation of Warsaw by the German army and the murder of the Jews, either there or in the concentration camps where they were dispatched. The poem ends with the Jews taking up the gun that symbolizes the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The English translation appears with the original Yiddish text.

• | Author: Katzenelson Yitzhak, Jack Hirschman
• | Publisher: Regent Press
• | Publication Date: February 01, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 130 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1587905582
• | ISBN-13: 9781587905582