Eliyahu Meitus: A Grandniece’s Book About a Hebrew Poet

By Ella Romm

My granduncle, Eliyahu Meitus (1892-1978), lived through the first three quarters of the XX century, the turbulent times in the history of the European Jews. His life began in Bessarabia, a distant province of the Russian Empire, and ended in the state of Israel 85 years later. He was a poet and writer, a teacher and translator, a polyglot and Zionist.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329493407

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Eliyahu Meitus: A Grandniece’s Book About a Hebrew Poet

Eliyahu Meitus

A Grandniece’s Book About a Hebrew Poet

By Ella Romm

with Michael Romm

and Sheli Fain

San Diego, California, 2015

ISBN 978-1-329-49340-7

Copyright © 2015 by Ella Romm and Michael Romm

Edited by Michael Romm and Sheli Fain

Translation of sonnets and Nathan Bistritzki’s article by Sheli Fain

Translation of poems from Russian to English by Michael Romm

Contents

Eliyahu Meitus A Grandniece’s Book About a Hebrew Poet

Preface about the Author

Who is Eliyahu Meitus

A Word on My Data Sources

Eliyahu’s Family and Bio Summary

Eliyahu’s Life in Literature

Poems from the Book On the Edge of the Second Bridge

(Page 7) On a swinging bridge

(Page 8) On the Edge of the Second Bridge

(Page 9) This is the fragrance of sunrise

(Page 10) My Boat

(Page 11) The ghastly lake

(Page 12) …And the circle is closing again

(Page 13) In the river of my life I see my image

(Page 14) Spirals of smoke

(Page 15) I said: - In my goblet…

(Page 16) You, Whom Suddenly I Met

The Evening Lights by Nathan Bistritzky

Poems from «Jewish anthology - a collection of young Jewish poets»

At Night

From the Songs of the Fall

Preface about the Author

Dear readers,

My name is Ella Romm. I was born in 1966, in the southern Russian town of Sholokhovskiy of the Rostov-on-Don region. My paternal grandmother Anna Vaysman, whose maiden name was Meites, immigrated to the United States from Chisinau, Moldova. Our family joined her in 1993. I lived in New York for 15 years and then moved to San Diego, California in 2007. I am a medical doctor, a poet, a researcher. I and my husband, also a poet, published a number of poetry books in Russian. At some point I grew a major interest in my heritage and eventually published two volumes of the family genealogy. Eliyahu Meitus was one of the brightest stars in the family constellation. He became the subject of my next research.

Who is Eliyahu Meitus

My granduncle, Eliyahu Meitus, lived through the first three quarters of the XX century, the turbulent times in the history of the European Jews. His life began in Bessarabia, a distant province of the Russian Empire, and