Poetic Obituaries: "In the postwar world, he was the most important

Jewish poet and a world class poet in general," said Dr. Paul Glasser, associate dean of the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in Manhattan. "People thought he should have gotten the Nobel Prize, but now he won't."

Mr. [Abraham] Sutzkever had helped rescue YIVO manuscripts and other treasures from the Nazis when they occupied the Lithuanian city of Vilna.

Writing poetry helped Mr. Sutzkever survive a war in which he lost his mother and an infant son as well as the Jewish soul of his beloved city of Vilna, which prided itself as the Jerusalem of Lithuania for its fiercely cultivated intellectualism.

from The New York Times: Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Jewish Poet and Partisan, Dies
also Forward: Poet and Partisan Avrom Sutzkever Dies
also Haaretz: Abraham Sutzkever, 1913-2010
also UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: A. Sutzkever: Elegy

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