Poetic Obituaries: The author of several volumes of poetry,

Mr. [Emanuel] Litvinoff also wrote well-received novels centering on the struggles of Jews in the European diaspora. He was the author of "Journey Through a Small Planet" (1972), a highly praised memoir of the straitened yet vibrant Jewish community in London's prewar East End.

Mr. Litvinoff also advocated on behalf of the rights of Jews in the postwar East Bloc. He was the founder and editor of a newsletter originally titled Jews in Eastern Europe, which was published regularly from the late 1950s to the late '80s.

But it was for his poem "To T. S. Eliot" that he was best remembered.

from The New York Times: Emanuel Litvinoff, Poet and Detractor of T. S. Eliot, Dies at 96

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