Justin Cammy

Dec 1, 2023 | qoshe.com | Justin Cammy

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Nov 28, 2023 | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Justin Cammy

I write to you this late Wednesday afternoon from Tel Aviv, prior to my flight home. November 29 happens to be my birthday. More importantly, it is also an important date in Israeli history, when the UN Generation Assembly voted to Partition Palestine to allow for a Jewish state. But the mood here is far from festive.

Aug 7, 2023 | yiddishbookcenter.org | Abraham Sutzkever |Justin Cammy

After their escape from the Vilna ghetto on September 12, 1943, Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever and his wife Freydke spent six months in the forest among partisan fighters before they were airlifted and brought to safety in Moscow. There, Sutzkever was conscripted by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to write a chronicle of his two years in the ghetto. Sutzkever’s time in Moscow put him into contact with leading figures of Soviet-Yiddish culture.

Apr 18, 2023 | tabletmag.com | Justin Cammy

The poet Abraham Sutzkever (1913-2010) moved into the Vilna Ghetto not long after the Nazis created it in September 1941 and, with his wife Freydke, escaped to the forest in September 1943. During his two years in the ghetto, he worked with the theater and youth groups and was part of the legendary Paper Brigade, a group of ghetto inmates and their allies who rescued priceless Jewish books and manuscripts from Nazi destruction.