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This is a setting I composed of Anna Margolin's dark poem of feminist rage, entitled Epitaf. Anna Margolin was the pen name of Rosa Lebensboim, a Lithuanian poet who lived in many places before settling in New York and influencing the Yiddish writers’ scene there.
composed 2019 - 2022
lyrics
Epitaf (translation Shirley Kumove):
Tell him: she couldn't forgive herself
for her despondent mood,
so she went through life
with self-effacing steps.
Say that until her death
she faithfully protected with bare hands
the flame entrusted to her
and in that same fire she burned.
And how in hours of exultation
she took G-d to task,
how her blood sang deeply
as dwarfs destroyed her.
Dertzeyl es im: zi hot fargebn
zikh nit gekent ir troyerik gemit,
iz zi gegangen durkhn lebn
mit zikh antshuldiknde trit
Dertzeyl, az zi hot bizn toyt
geshitst getray mit hoyle hent
dos fayer, vos iz ir geven fartroyt
un in eygenem fayer gebrent
Un vi in shoen fun ibermut
hot zi mit got zikh shver gevert
vi tif gezungen hot dos blut,
vi tzvergn hobn zi tzeshtert.
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