H. Leivick is the pen name of poet and dramatist Leivick Halpern (1888-1962). Born in Ihumen, Russia (now Chervyen, Belarus), he was arrested in 1906 as a member of the Bund and sentenced to labor and exile in Siberia for possession of illegal literature. In 1913, he escaped to America. Leivick is perhaps best known in English for his play The Golem.
During Scotland’s lockdown, I had the good fortune of stumbling upon the work of a writer whose name had never turned up in all my many years of Hebrew/Jewish... Read more.
