Zlochov, My Home: Poems by Moyshe-Leyb Halpern Bilingual edition by Moyshe-Leyb Halpern non-media and heartaches of Yiddish-speaking American

and heartaches of Yiddish-speaking American Communists

" why do we end up feeling alone in the land we love

the pogrom survivor

one of his most intriguing characters

the house of study

Zlochov, My Home: Poems by Moyshe-Leyb Halpern Bilingual edition by Moyshe-Leyb Halpern non-media and heartaches of Yiddish-speaking AmericanTranslated by Richard J Fein Bilingual English & Yiddish edition Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the full scope of his oeuvre. Described by Ruth Wisse as one of "the most original and distinctive voices in Yiddish poetry," Moyshe Leybe Halpern (1886 1932) was born in Zlochov, in present day western Ukraine. When he was twelve, his father sent him to Vienna to study sign painting, and during his ten years there he studied