Aaron Zeitlin (1898-1973), Yiddish and Hebrew poet and playwright, expresses in his modren poetry and prose the Jewish mystical tradition to which he was initiated by his father, the philosopher and journalist Hillel Zeitlin (1872-1942). Zeitlin sees Jewish mysticsm as a fundemental instrument for deciphering a world that never ceases to confront the human being with its enigmas and contradictions. Through a partiuclar prism of Jewish destiny, Zeitlin’s lucid vision of existence itself reaches the universal.
Written in Yiddish in 1930
