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Avrom Valt-Lyessin (translation)
Avrom Valt-Lyessin (1872-1938; immigrated 1896), socialist activist and translator. Lyessin would become a major figure in the history of the Yiddish socialist press when he became the editor of Tsukunft – a pioneering Yiddish socialist journal that was published in New York.אָ, קאפּיטאן! מײַן קאפּיטאן! | O Captain! My Captain!, an elegy for President Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman (1865), Yiddish translation by Avrom Valt-Lyessin (1913)
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Walt Whitman’s famous poem eulogizing President Abraham Lincoln after his assassination, in English with Yiddish translation. . . .
