Jacob Glatstein

Yankev (Jacob) Glatstein was born in 1896 in Lublin. He immigrated to the United States in 1914, where he founded the modernist poetry group “In Zich” in New York. He was a highly respected and well-known Jewish writer who wrote in Yiddish, which is why he he was virtually unknown in Poland. His works covered a broad range of themes, including those related to Lublin, everyday life in New York, reflections on tradition, and lamentations for the victims of the Holocaust.