Leendert Cornelis Deij: "Al la Juda Foririnto" / "To the Jew Who Walked Away"

This post commemorates the Holocaust Days of Remembrance in 2017. Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Let us remember also that all of Zamenhof's children were murdered by the Nazis, and Esperanto was targeted as a Jewish conspiracy.

For decades this original Esperanto Holocaust-related poem has been my favorite on the theme of the Shoah. (I discovered some excellent Hungarian Holocaust poetry--some of which also has Esperanto translations--last year, but that is another story.) An English translation received a commendation in a British literary competition. I have reported on the poem, the poet, and the translation on this blog several times previously. I finally obtained the English translation, which I have added to the Esperanto original:

"Al la Juda Foririnto" / "To the Jew Who Walked Away"
by Leendert Cornelis Deij with English translation by Elizabeth Stanley

Note also William Auld's English translation:

Al la juda foririnto / To the Jewish Departed / Al judío que marchó
English translation by William Auld, literal Spanish translation by Fátima Maritela Marinera

Note that I have previously misspelled Deij's middle name, which should read ‘Cornelis’. ‘Leendert Cornelis Deij’ also appears under the names ‘Leen Deij’ and ‘Lodewijk Cornelis Deij’. When I figure out how to correct the subject heading, I will alter it to ‘Leendert Cornelis Deij’.

See also these web pages/sites:

• Star in a Night Sky (book’s web site)
• Star in a Night Sky: An Anthology of Esperanto Literature (publisher’s web site)
• Leendert Deij - Vikipedio
• Leendert Deij (OLE)
• La muelejo de Leen Deij (Deij's stillborn blog / blogo mortnaskita)

To the Jew who walked away / Al la Juda Foririnto

Dum kelkaj jardekoj mi admiradis ĉi tiun elokventan poemon:

"Al la Juda Foririnto" de Lodewijk Cornelius Deij

La Londona Times (Tempo) listigis inter premiitoj de sia konkurso laŭdon de anglalingva traduko de ĉi tiu poemo fare de Elizabeth Stanley. Mirinde!

Jen ĉerpoj el la koncerna ĵurnalraporto:

Winners of The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation
Josephine Balmer
The Times
October 26, 2007

Many entries also illustrated the wider, political importance of translated poetry, such as Elizabeth Stanley's To the Jew who walked away, from Esperanto and commended in the Open Category, or Karen Margolis's translations of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, written just before the poet's death in a Nazi labour camp at the age of 18. Several entrants were making their first attempts at poetry translation, discovering how it can enrich their experience as both readers and writers.

La kategorio ĉi-rilata estas "Open category" (malferma kategorio):

Commended: Elizabeth Stanley's translation from Esperanto of To the Jew who walked away by Leen Deij; [. . .]

Mi ŝatus havigi la tekston de la tuta traduko. Tamen, malkontentigas min la traduko de la titolo. "To the Jew who walked away" malĝuste sugestas volontan forpaŝadon, ne la efektivan perfortan forprenadon. Alia esprimo pli taŭgus, ekz.: "foriris" signifas "went away" (ekz. malaperis), kaj "went" sonas sufiĉe simila al "walked" do tie funkcius bone.