Alter Esselin

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Alter Esselin (originally Orkeh Serebrenik) was a Russian-born American poet who wrote in the Yiddish language.

He was born in Chernigov, part of the Russian Empire's Chernigov Governorate (present-day Ukraine) on April 23, 1889, and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on November 22, 1974.

He wrote and had published hundreds of poems in journals such as Di goldene keyt, Di veg, Kundus, The Future, or Di Tsukunft (The Future) and many others over the course of his life. In Sol Liptzin's book A History of Yiddish Literature, his work is discussed, and in Nachman Mayzel's America in Yiddishen Vort, his poetry is included.

In 1927, Knoytn (Candlewicks) was the first poem in the Schmetter Brothers' second (Under the Yoke) series, and the third, Lider fun a mdbarnik) in 1954, where the editor, Moissaye Joseph Olgin, announced that Esselin's poem was the first place prize in the country's first national competition, but the first was a prize.

In 1954, the distinguished Yiddish critic, O. Rapaport, wrote an article about Esselin in the journal Di Tsuvy "the Word is Alive"), in which he lauded Esselin's unique poetic voice, a bittersweet voice that Rapaport claims emerged from his struggle to recover from suffering. Esselin appeared on "The People of the Book," a weekly television show dedicated to Jewish culture on WTMJ, Milwaukee, in October, 1969.

For audio excerpts from the program, please see the sidebar, with Esselin reading both Yidish and English versions of his poem "Elegy for a Tree."

A reading of his poem "Consolation Comes Late" is also included, as well as an audio excerpt from Esselin's life as a poet.

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