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Binem Heller (1908–1998) was a Polish poet and activist.




Life


Heller was born in 1908 in Warsaw, and became a glove worker at the age of fourteen.
Writing in Yiddish, he emerged early as a leader of Poland's proletarian poets, equivalent to the Proletpen. His first collection, "Through the Bars", was published in Łódź in 1930 and was confiscated by the Polish authorities.
From 1937 to 1939, he lived in Belgium and Paris. He returned to Warsaw, then fled to Bialystok before the Nazi armies. After the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1943, he took shelter in Alma-Ata, where he wrote the poems "Inheritance" and "In Shadow". In 1947, he returned to Poland, hoping to participate in a revival of its Jewish cultural life. Heller helped write the script for the 1946 film Unzere kinder, one of the first films to address the Holocaust. In Poland, Heller was a member of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland and the Jewish Writers' Union. "Spring in Poland" appeared in 1950, and "Poems, 1932-1939", in 1956.
He then moved to Paris and Brussels, where his poem of political renunciation, "Alas, how they shattered my life", caused a storm of controversy. A year later, he made Israel his home. His many later works include New poems (1964) and They shall arise (1984).
Binem Heller died in Israel in 1998.




Works


Durkh krates (Through bars, poems), Warsaw, 1930
In umru fun teg (In apprehension of days, poems), Warsaw, 1932
Afn vint, poeme (Into the wind, a poem), Warsaw, 1936
Lider (poems), Minsk, 1940
Di erd hot getsitert, lider (The earth shook, poetry), Moscow, 1947
Der veg af varshe (The way to Warsaw), Moscow, 1948
Durkh shotn un shayn (Through shadows and light), Warsaw ,1948
Friling in poyln, lider (Springtime in Poland, poems), Warsaw, 1950
Heymerd, lider (Motherland, poems), Warsaw, 1951
In unzer tsayt, lider (In our time, poems), Warsaw 1954
Dos ershte lid (The first poem), Warsaw, 1956
Klorkeyt (Clarity), Warsaw, 1957
Naye lider (New poems), Tel Aviv, 1964
Dor un doyer (Generation and duration), Tel Aviv, 1967
A boym in ovnt (A tree in the evening), Tel Aviv, 1971
In varshever geto in khoydesh nisn (In the Warsaw Ghetto in the month of Nissan), Tel Aviv, 1973
Bikhides (In private), Tel Aviv, 1975
Dos tsugezogte vort (The promised word), Tel Aviv, 1980
Zey veln oyfshteyn, lider (They will rise up, poems), Tel Aviv, 1984
Togbukh af tsurik (A retrospective diary), unpublished memoir manuscript




References






Further reading


Heller, Binem (1948). Durkh shotn un shayn. Lodz: Yidish bukh: lodzsh. ISBN 0657073717.

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