Italian-Jewish Banker
Gicomo Alatri, a 19th Century
Italian-Jewish financier and bank-
er, was one of the first presidents
of the Bank of Rome:
Days Remembered A Page From My Notebook
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
46—Friday, September 16, 1966
thin on Glatstein himself, but in
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those days- it was a daring inno-
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vation, a path larded with traps
for all but the genuinely _gifted.
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However, the gift that Glatstein
brought to Yiddish poetry is not
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introspectiveness, b u t incompar-
able talent, combining audacious
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artistic sweep with savor of Jew-
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Glatstein has a sweeping theme,
and there is no emotion he can-
not limn. He has a remarkable
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his fertile mind. But his colors
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are at their most wrathful best
when he lamentizes Jewish des-
tiny. Jewish deterioration, Jewish
pathlessness. He feels Jewish hurt
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with painful sensitivity, so much
so that he even bids the world a
diance as they sought respite after
long sessions with questions and symbolic "good night" in one of
his poems, counselling Jewish .re-
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problems that were to judge their
turn td looks and niches and ghet-
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competence for admission to the
toes where there is no badgering,
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behind. Some trekked deliberately,
His metaphors are striking, his
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like the pious on holy purpose.
Others hastily, as if driven by fear. tanmage vigorous and his sweep
Ioverpowering.
And some strolled pensively.
Glatstein now has mellowed a
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"Are you Glatstein?" I asked good deal. But his artistry has
a pair of baffled eyes, and the neither diminished nor faded. It
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We had been total strangers, he composed his incredibly fanci-
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tapped his shoulder that here morning hour when he penned
was the young poet whose golden what is one of the greatest poems
pen was etching a revolution in of all time—"Sesame."
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guistic spears were piercing the
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yet discovered America and the
poets most often were chained to
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a lyricism whose charm lay in
evoking distant remembrances. The
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the college campus as. my vision
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to the sky.
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niches where there was sviva, cli-
mate, atmosphere. But amidst all
this there was awareness among
the creative in the Yiddish tongue
that here was the- new center of
Jewish creativeness, of Jewish
growth. As more and more literary
greats began swarming to our
shores, there was mounting reali•
zation that anchoring to new soil
implied new paths, new visions,
new horizons, if the Yiddish me-
dium was to bear fruit.
. When Jacob Glatstein arrived
from Poland as a young man—
almost a boy—he fell into a
stream of literary debate that
was current at the time in a
hopeful America. The new cen-
tury—or so it was thought—was
beginning to find itself, and the
artists were asserting themselves
with a bold and abundant ar-
ticulateness. America then ap-
peared to be seething more with
literary debate than political
discussion.,
It was against this background
that Glatstein was emerging as a
poet and initiator of a new school
in Yiddish poetry and prose as, well.
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