The Last Lullaby

Poetry from the Holocaust

By: Aaron Kramer (Editor, Translator), Saul Lishinsky (Illustrator)

Write A Review

Paperback | 1 March 1999

At a Glance

Paperback
278 Pages

Edition Type
New edition

Dimensions(cm)
24.13 x 15.88 x 1.91

Paperback

RRP $60.28

$39.75

34%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $9.94 with

or

Ships in 15 to 25 business days

The Last Lullaby is the culmination of Araon Kramer's fifty-year devotion to translating the poetry of the Holocaust. The full horror of the genocide and the sublime of those who resisted are given voice on these pages.

Placing each group in its historic and literary context with comprehensive introductory essays, Professor Kramer presents works mostly unavailable in English-until now. For the very first time, readers can become familiar with poets who experienced the horrors of the ghettos and the death camps and survived: Soviet poets; American poets who were forever transformed by the Holocaust. Kramer also introduces the 1944 Terezin opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis.

The Last Lullaby is a testament to the richness of a half-annihilated language that, in the pain of its survivors, was made more beautiful than ever before. Unlike most other translators, Kramer insists on maintaining the music of the original Yiddish, the often "folkish" cadence and rhyme that, he believes, are a precious part of these poems' legacy.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

More in Poetry

Love Poems

Hardcover

RRP $35.00

$28.75

18%
OFF

I don't Think I'm Straight

Queer poems to celebrate you

Paperback

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF

You're Going to Be OK

(Because You're F*cked No Matter What)

Paperback

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF

Dropbear

Winner of the 2022 Stella Prize

Paperback

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF

The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman

Wordsworth Poetry Library

Paperback

RRP $19.99

$13.75

31%
OFF

The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid: Boxed Set : Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition: 3 Volumes in Slipcase (Bevelled Edges) - Homer

$21.75

13%
OFF

You Hung the Moon

A Love Letter Between Mother and Child

Hardcover

RRP $21.99

$19.75

10%
OFF

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

Poems

Hardcover

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF

365 Poems for Life

An Uplifting Collection for Every Day of the Year

Hardcover

RRP $46.99

$36.75

22%
OFF

Poems & Prayers

Matthew McConaughey's brand new inspirational book

Hardcover

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF

The Rot

Paperback

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF

Beautiful Changelings

Paperback

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF

I Still Believe in Miracles

Poems to Find Meaning in Difficult Times

Hardcover

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF

The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind (revised)

One Of The Most Powerful Self-help Guides Ever Written!

Paperback

RRP $24.99

$20.99

16%
OFF

Dog Songs

Poems

Hardcover

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF

The Iliad

Paperback

RRP $32.95

$26.99

18%
OFF

Beautiful Chaos

On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love

Paperback

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF

Joy Chose You: Words for Hope, Comfort and Light

The instant Sunday Times bestseller & perfect gift

Hardcover

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF

The Lost Words

A Spell Book

Hardcover

RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%
OFF

Tao Te Ching

Penguin Classics

Paperback

RRP $17.99

$16.75

The Essential Rumi

New Expanded Edition

Paperback

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF

The Complete Poems of John Keats

Wordsworth Poetry Library

Paperback

RRP $19.99

$13.75

31%
OFF

The Prophet

Penguin Classics Hardcover

Hardcover

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF

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
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

The Last Lullaby

Poetry from the Holocaust

At a Glance

Paperback

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Poetry

Love Poems

I don't Think I'm Straight

Queer poems to celebrate you

You're Going to Be OK

(Because You're F*cked No Matter What)

Dropbear

Winner of the 2022 Stella Prize

The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman

Wordsworth Poetry Library

The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid: Boxed Set

Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition: 3 Volumes in Slipcase (Bevelled Edges)

Heroes

The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold

You Hung the Moon

A Love Letter Between Mother and Child

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

Poems

365 Poems for Life

An Uplifting Collection for Every Day of the Year

Poems & Prayers

Matthew McConaughey's brand new inspirational book

The Rot

Beautiful Changelings

I Still Believe in Miracles

Poems to Find Meaning in Difficult Times

The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind (revised)

One Of The Most Powerful Self-help Guides Ever Written!

Dog Songs

Poems

The Iliad

Beautiful Chaos

On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love

Joy Chose You: Words for Hope, Comfort and Light

The instant Sunday Times bestseller & perfect gift

The Lost Words

A Spell Book

Tao Te Ching

Penguin Classics

The Essential Rumi

New Expanded Edition

The Complete Poems of John Keats

Wordsworth Poetry Library

The Prophet

Penguin Classics Hardcover

This product is categorised by