Jewish heritage sites have long inspired artists and writers, and we occasionally like to highlight examples.
Our new “Have Your Say” op-ed is a poem about the Old Jewish Cemetery in Lesko, Poland — one of the oldest in Europe, dating back to the middle of the 16th century — which we present with a photo essay showing some of the 2,000 or so gravestones that remain.
The poem, from 1954, is “Old Jewish Cemetery at Lesko,” by the Polish poet Tadeusz Różewicz: we present the English translation by Joanna Trzeciak Huss, an associate professor of Russian & Polish translation at Kent State University.
Click here to access the Have Your Say