BIBLIOTHECA AUGUSTANA

 

Khayem Grent

1901 - 1952

 

«mir zaynen di yunge»

 

1930

 

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leitmotif

fun di zamlung «Ineynem»; aroysgegebn fun

Yehoyesh Shrayber Ferayn Farlag/Dzherzi Siti un Bayon, 1930

 

mir zaynen di yunge,

s'iz undzer baginen,

un nokh baginen kumt likht.

to zol klingen, khaveyrim,

alts shtarker un hekher –

undzer baginen gedikht!

un meg der baginen doyern leynger,

nisht shrekt zikh kolegen –

farlirt nit a klang!

sof sof veln vintn muzn dertrogn,

tsu farfroyrene hertser –

undzer baginen gezang!

 

«di kolegen [Yekhiel Reznik, Khayem Grent, Eliyohu Blokh, Yisroel Vigodski, Yankev Zafren, Hersh Kohn] veln zikh nokh lozn heren. in der Dzherzi shtime veln zey... hobn di meglekhkayt... oyfhoybn dem kultureln matsev fun der yidisher mase bay di bregn fun dem tsveytn zayt Hudson taykh.» (forvort tsu der zamlung «Ineynem» fun M. Bezin)

 

kval: The Mendele Review 2002