
Black Honey, The Life & Poetry of Avraham Sutskever

Documentary
Throughout his life, Abraham Sutzkever would not let a film about his life be made. Nearly a decade after his passing in 2010, “Black Honey” tells the incredible story of the greatest Yiddish poet of modern times. Sutzkever led the Paper Brigade underground movement that saved Jewish books and manuscripts from the Nazis. H survived the Holocaust thanks to Stalin sending a private plane to rescue him. He testified in the Nuremberg Trials and immigrated to Israel in 1947. In Israel, he became the leading figure of Yiddish culture and continued writing with astonishing vitality.
Throughout his life, Abraham Sutzkever would not let a film about his life be made. Nearly a decade after his passing in 2010, “Black Honey” tells the incredible story of the greatest Yiddish poet of modern times. Sutzkever led the Paper Brigade underground movement that saved Jewish books and manuscripts from the Nazis. H survived the Holocaust thanks to Stalin sending a private plane to rescue him. He testified in the Nuremberg Trials and immigrated to Israel in 1947. In Israel, he became the leading figure of Yiddish culture and continued writing with astonishing vitality.
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