Svatko od nas ima ime: izabrane pjesme

Abstract

Zelda Schneurson (1914-1984) bila je religiozna pjesnikinja koja je u svojoj osobnosti i poeziji objedinjavala više svjetova. Rođena je 1914. u Ukrajini u hasidskoj obitelji, sljedbenicima Chabada, jednog od najpoznatijih ultraortodoksnih pokreta na svijetu. Na njeno je pisanje, jezik i tekstove utjecao židovski misticizam. Kao ultraortodoksna Židovka, držala je do svojih tradicija. Ipak, pisala je modernu poeziju, poeziju gotovo bez rime i težine. Njene su pjesme postale dijelom rane izraelske poezije u prvim desetljećima nakon uspostave Države Izrael. Mlado izraelsko društvo, koje se u to vrijeme udaljilo od vjerske tradicije, u njezinim je pjesmama pronašlo drevni židovski svijet koji je u njihovim srcima probudio duboku čežnju. Zelda je doista vjerovala da poezija ima dužnost ispuniti ulogu hasidske priče, židovske fabule i melodije. Za nju su to bili načini povezivanja čovjeka s njegovim Bogom. Zelda je imigrirala u Erec Izrael 1926. godine i uklopila se u mladu židovsku zajednicu. Radila je kao učiteljica u Jeruzalemu, a jedan od njenih učenika bio je i pokojni Amos Oz, koji je i sam kasnije postao poznati pisac.

Zelda Schneurson (1914-1984) was a religious poet who united several worlds in her personality and poetry. She was born in 1914 in Ukraine in a Hasidic family, followers of Chabad, one of the most famous ultra-orthodox movements in the world. Her writing, language and lyrics were influenced by Jewish mysticism. As an ultra-orthodox Jew, she kept to her traditions. Nevertheless, she wrote modern poetry, poetry almost without rhyme or heaviness. Her poems became part of early Israeli poetry in the first decades after the establishment of the State of Israel. The young Israeli society, which at that time moved away from religious tradition, found in her songs the ancient Jewish world, which awakened a deep longing in their hearts. Zelda truly believed that poetry had a duty to fulfil the role of Hasidic story, Jewish fable and melody. For her, these were ways of connecting man with his God. Zelda immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1926 and blended into the young Jewish community. She worked as a teacher in Jerusalem, and one of her students was the late Amos Oz, who became a famous writer.