The Last Lullaby

by Kramer, Aaron; Lishinsky, Saul

• ISBN13: 9780815605799
• ISBN10: 081560579X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

In Joyce Reiser Kornblatt's new novel, The Reason for Wings, a Holocaust survivor in Argentina undertakes "the duties of witness, " setting down for her missing granddaughter a multi-generational epic of love in the face of catastrophe.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Dora Teitelboim Foundation
Creation in a Death Camp	p. 3
The Emperor of Atlantis	p. 15
You, Who're Permitted to Live	p. 30
Lullabies of the Holocaust	p. 33
A Cradlesong for American-Jewish Children - 1940	p. 36
Night and Rain	p. 38
The Last Cradlesong	p. 39
Ghetto Lullaby	p. 40
Lullaby	p. 41
Wandersong	p. 42
A Cradlesong for Today	p. 43
The Moon Is Going to Sleep	p. 44
Three Children	p. 45
A Father's Lullaby	p. 46
Song of a Substitute Mother	p. 47
The Last Lullaby	p. 49
Little Boy Dreaming	p. 51
In the Children's Home	p. 52
Lullaby	p. 53
Shmulik	p. 55
A New Lullaby	p. 58
Playthings	p. 59
Babi-Yar	p. 60
The Cradle	p. 61
The Empty Little Bed	p. 62
The Young Mother	p. 63
Sleep, Child	p. 65
Cradlesong 1943	p. 66
A Song Without a Name about a Child Without a Name	p. 68
Orphans	p. 69
Noteh's Sleep-Song	p. 69
Over Cradles	p. 71
Under the Patch of Yellow	p. 72
Cradlesong of a Jewish Mother in Poland	p. 74
Ghetto Song	p. 75
Cradlesong	p. 76
Softly, Softly	p. 77
War Lullaby	p. 79
Partisans	p. 81
Cradlesong	p. 82
A Wind Weeps	p. 84
The Poets	p. 85
Songs of the Ghettos and Death Camps	p. 95
In Bialystok's Ghetto	p. 96
Let Us Be Jolly	p. 96
Not One Sob	p. 97
From Vilna Went Forth Still Another Decree	p. 97
Gypsy Song	p. 99
Toward a Better Tomorrow	p. 100
Aflame!	p. 102
A Jewish Child	p. 105
The Song of the Slaughtered Jewish People	p. 108
A Bit of Bread	p. 111
I Yearn	p. 112
The Grief-Stricken Heart	p. 113
To a Little Boy	p. 114
Eternity	p. 115
Our Spirit Is Not Broken	p. 116
Partisan Poets	p. 118
Why Was It So Bright?	p. 120
Warsaw	p. 122
Ballad of Itzik Wittenberg	p. 124
In the Dungeon	p. 127
My Mother	p. 127
The Lost Roses	p. 129
Before Night	p. 130
The Teacher Mira	p. 130
A Sword with Wings	p. 132
Song of a Jewish Poet in 1943	p. 133
If No Trace of My People Shall Be Found	p. 133
Let Each Be a Fortress!	p. 134
Don't Sing the Sorrowful	p. 134
The Third Hand	p. 136
The Bridge Reverberates Each Step We Take	p. 137
While Carrying Loads of Timber	p. 139
And Have There Been Many More Days Allotted?	p. 140
Not a Sound; the Night Is Starry Partisan Song	p. 142
Partisan Song	p. 144
Soviet Yiddish Poets	p. 145
No Weeping!	p. 146
Spring	p. 147
Strength	p. 149
Before	p. 150
The Word about Ethel	p. 150
To a Jewish Dancer	p. 152
Shadows of the Warsaw Ghetto	p. 155
My Curse	p. 156
The Vow	p. 158
Thirst	p. 160
To the Skies of Israel	p. 161
June 22nd	p. 163
Spring's Table	p. 164
Survivors	p. 166
Out of the Hot Ashes	p. 167
I'd Like to Stop	p. 168
Alone	p. 171
I Was Not Privileged	p. 172
A Song about Yiddish	p. 173
Had My Mother Lived	p. 175
Mendele	p. 176
A Naked Boy	p. 177
The Silent Partner	p. 180
My Mother Looks at Me	p. 180
This Is Not the Road	p. 182
My Prayer to the Chimney	p. 182
We Go On Living	p. 183
A Snow Falls	p. 184
I Live on the West Side	p. 184
Prayer	p. 186
God Hid His Face	p. 186
How Cool, How Velvet-Green	p. 187
Tadzhio! Tadzhio!	p. 187
Dear Neighbors	p. 189
The September Wind	p. 189
Two Stones	p. 190
My Sister Chaneh	p. 190
My Mother Sang Me a Polish Song	p. 191
My Father's Letters	p. 191
The Titanic	p. 192
Sounds from the Past	p. 192
Perhaps	p. 193
In California I Heard	p. 194
My Son	p. 194
What Swims There on the Hudson	p. 195
And Always When the Sun Goes Down	p. 195
The Eclipse of 1964	p. 195
Again I Live	p. 196
From Across the Wide Sea	p. 199
My Father Used to Call It Chtsos	p. 200
To an Orphan	p. 202
Dreams	p. 203
I. L. Peretz and Bontshe Shvaig in the Warsaw Ghetto	p. 204
Merciful God	p. 208
Smoke	p. 210
Memorial Poem	p. 210
Lament for the Souls of Jewish Cities	p. 212
What Is Not Here	p. 215
The Last One, the First One	p. 218
Homecoming	p. 221
The Stone	p. 223
The Martyrs Are Calling	p. 225
The "Lovers of Israel"	p. 229
The Devils' Dance	p. 231
In Terrible Days	p. 233
The Ship	p. 235
Ash on the Sun	p. 238
I Await You	p. 240
Momma	p. 241
There Once Was a House	p. 242
Aaron Kramer and Ber Green	p. 248
Aaron Kramer: A Tribute, Matthew Paris	p. 251
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