Poetic Obituaries: Few mastered the intricacies of Yiddish

with the passion and aplomb of the last great poet of the language, Abraham Sutzkever, who has died aged 96. Sutzkever's work, which focused on his experiences of the Holocaust, was translated into 30 languages. He rescued Yiddish texts during the second world war, and for six decades battled to revive a Yiddish literary tradition when most of its European speakers had perished.

Sutzkever felt himself "stung with song by a fiery bee" in his youth.

from The Guardian: Abraham Sutzkever

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