“The Lead Plates of the Rom Printers”

This is a poem by Avrom Sutzkever, written circa 1944 inside the ghetto in Vilnius. Below is a reading of the poem by Sutzkever himself:

Sources: Avrom Sutzkever, “Di blayene platn fun roms drukeray,” Di fesṭung lider un poemes: geshribn in Ṿilner Geṭo un in ṿald 1941-1944 (New York: Yiddisher Kultur Farband, 1945), 62.

Barbara and Benjamin Harshav, “The Lead Plates of the Rom Printers,” A. Sutzkever: Selected poetry and prose (Oakland: University of California, 1991), 169–170.

Avrom Sutzkever, “Sutskever leyent 13 lider,” audio collection of the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. Digitized by the Yiddish Book Center as part of its Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library. Accessed on April 26, 2019, https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/archival-recordings/fbr-976_4975/sutzkever-recites-13-poems-avrom-sutzkever.

Courtesy of the Yiddish Book Center.