Itzig Manger was a Yiddish poet, playwright, prose writer and essayist.  He was born Isidor Helfer in Czernowitz (then in Rumania, now known as Chernivtsi in the Ukraine), the son of a Jewish tailor.  His family moved to Jassy, in Rumania, when he was 14 and learned Yiddish.  He published many poems and ballads in … Continue reading Volkns Ibern Dach (Clouds over the roof), Itzig Manger, London, 1942. →