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Israel names a street after renowned Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever

JL;DR SUMMARY Netanya, Israel, has honored the influential Yiddish poet and Vilna partisan, Abraham Sutzkever, by naming a street after him, marking it as "Rechov Avrom Sutzkever." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Yiddish LiteratureHolocaustYiddish CultureJewish PartisansAbraham SutzkeverVilna GhettoDi Goldene KeytNetanyaRechov Avrom SutzkeverJewish Culture In Israel

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Netanya, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"The Israeli city of Netanya has renamed one of its streets Rechov Avrom Sutzkever (Abraham Sutzkever Street), after the renowned Yiddish poet and Vilna partisan."
Smorgon, Hrodna, Belarus
"Sutzkever was born in 1913 in the shtetl of Smorgon, in what is now Belarus."
Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation
"During World War I, his family moved to Siberia, where his father, Hertz Sutzkever, died."
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
"In 1921, his mother Rayne moved the family to Vilnius, where Sutzkever attended cheder."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Even Tel Aviv never did so, despite the fact that Sutzkever lived there for many years and the city was once a hotbed of Yiddish cultural activity, due to the influx of Yiddish-speaking immigrants who settled there after the Holocaust."

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