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Avrom Valt-Lyessin (translation)  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. Filter resources by Category Filter resources by Tag Abraham Lincoln | assassination | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | elegies | Yiddish translation | 19th century C.E. | 57th century A.M. | Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865) Filter resources by Collaborator Name Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range Resources filtered by TAG: “elegies” (clear filter) Sorted Chronologically (new to old). Sort oldest first? 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)Contributed by Avrom Valt-Lyessin (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Walt Whitman | ❧ Walt Whitman’s famous poem eulogizing President Abraham Lincoln after his assassination, in English with Yiddish translation. . . . | ||
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