Elephants by Night

Abraham (Avrom) Sutzkever (1913-2010) was among the most important Yiddish poets of the 20th century. Author of more than two dozen volumes of poetry and experimental prose, he also edited Di goldene keyt, the foremost journal of Yiddish studies for almost half a century. In 1985 he was awarded the Israel Prize, the first ever awarded for lifetime achievement in Yiddish literature.Mel Konner is an anthropologist with experience in Botswana, the Middle East and India. He has published twelve non-fiction books and a book of poems, and won the Oberon Poetry Prize in 2018.Justin Cammy is Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at Smith College, USA.