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The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever, Translated by Richard Fein synced neurotic heroBilingual Yiddish English text Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever (1913 2010) was described by the New York Times as "the greatest poet of the Holocaust." Born in present day Belarus, Sutzkever spent his childhood as a war refugee in Siberia, returned to Poland to participate in the interwar flourishing of Yiddish culture, was confined to the Vilna ghetto during the Nazi occupation, escaped to join the Jewish partisans, and settled in the new state of