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![]() Berl Lapin (translation)Berl Lapin (1889–1952) was a Yiddish poet and translator. Born in Grodno, he lived in Argentina 1905–09 and 1913–17 and in the U.S. 1909–13, before settling in New York in 1917. His first lyric collection Umetige Vegn ("Sad Ways," 1910) was completed in Vilna, where he had come under he influence of Chaim Zhitlowsky (as whose personal secretary he served) and the literary group Di Yunge. His excellence as a stylist is reflected in his translations of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Russian lyrics, and American poems, and his collected poems Der Fuler Krug ("The Full Pitcher," 1950). http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/02/ber-berl-lapin.html |
Contributed on: 25 May 2020 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Berl Lapin (translation) | Samuel Francis Smith | ❧
The well-known patriotic hymn with a Yiddish translation. . . .
Contributed on: 26 Dec 2019 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Berl Lapin (translation) | Katharine Lee Bates | ❧
“America the Beautiful,” the patriotic hymn (1911 version) by Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) in its Yiddish translation by Berl Lapin (1889-1952). . . .
Contributed on: 28 Mar 2020 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Berl Lapin (translation) | Francis Scott Key | ❧
The National Anthem of the United States of America with a Yiddish translation by Berl Lapin. . . .