Abraham Sutzkever

Abraham Sutzkever
Abraham Sutzkever, 1950
Native name
אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער
Born(1913-07-15)15 July 1913
Smorgon, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Smarhon, Belarus)
Died20 January 2010(2010-01-20) (aged 96)
Tel Aviv, Israel
OccupationPoet
LanguageYiddish
NationalityIsraeli
Notable works
  • Lider (Songs)
  • Valdiks (Of the Forest)
  • Geheymshtot (Secret City)
  • Di goldene keyt (The Golden Chain)
Notable awardsIsrael Prize (1985)
SpouseFreydke Sutzkever (died 2003)
Children2

Abraham Sutzkever (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער, romanized: Avrom Sutskever; Hebrew: אברהם סוצקבר; July 15, 1913 – January 20, 2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The New York Times wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet of the Holocaust."

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