RABINOWITZ, JOSEPH LEIB, Halo Be-Ezri Tzuri Ve-Go’ali [Poem decrying the fear, terror and panic imposed upon the Jewish nation by Hitler and his cohorts.]

(HOLOCAUST)

Progress

Vilkovishki

1933

Broadside

Bibliographically unrecorded

Highly unusual poem containing 176 rhymed lines, each of which adds up to the numerical equivalent of “693” (=1933, the year this broadside was published). The composer of this poem had an extraordinary mathematical talent for ingenious rhymed “gematrioth" each of which follow in natural prose. Rabinowitz concludes, when he writes negatively about the nations of the world, he means only to include Hitler, the Arab ruler of Yemen and and those that follow the path of Haman, “not those who have righteous hearts.”