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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780979610127
ISBN: 0979610125
Label: Affinity Billing, Inc
Manufacturer: Affinity Billing, Inc
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 120
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
Publisher: Affinity Billing, Inc
Studio: Affinity Billing, Inc

Victor Lirov was born in 1927 in Moscow, Russia. He is a bibliographer by profession, a doctor of philology by education, and a poet by calling. This little book has four cycles of his poetry in Russian. Lirov began writing "Exodus," its first cycle, in 1958 in Vilnius, Lithuania, as he began to discover his Jewish identity at a time when the Soviet empire was relentless and seemed invincible in its efforts to finally solve "the Jewish problem." Those who bore witness to the arrests, deportations, and murders of Jewish leaders in the Soviet Union during the 1950s understand the enormous personal risk involved in writing Jewish nationalist verses in the spirit of Lirov's "Exodus." Yet these few, brave Zionist voices eventually prevailed and over the years created a powerful tide that culminated in the one million-strong Exodus to Israel. Two other cycles include Lirov's writings to his son, family, and friends, spanning the years he lived in Lithuania and his subsequent emigration to Israel and absorption into Israeli culture. The fourth cycle presents for the first time Lirov's poems composed in 1946 in Moscow.

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Review Summary: Milestones
Review: In this collection of Russian verse stars are memorable points in life, each shining its pin light and illuminating the life's journey. This road takes the author and the reader, hand in hand, from the post Holocaust Moscow and Vilnius to present day Israel and the USA. It is infused with the meditative irony, humor, and the sheer Jewish ability to overcome whatever may come. Many of the poems are addressed to family and friends - but this is never detrimental to the reader's ability to empathize with the author.

These stars are not to be hauled in a sack, but to be taken out and examined one at a time.

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