Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

דער באַשלוס

langue: yiddish

traductions: allemand (Der Beschluss), anglais (The Decision)

דער באַשלוס

אויף אַ שמאָלן שוועל
טוסטו שטיין
צווישן יאָ
און ניין.

טאָמער יאָ –
וועט מען זיך זען.
און אַז נישט –
בלײַבסטו אַליין.

וואַקלסטו זיך
קטטענקלסט זיך
וווּ אַהין
צו גיין.

יאָ צי ניין?
ווייסט גאָט אַליין.
טוסטו אייביק
ווײַטער שטיין.

Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

Foto © Ken Collins, courtesy of Yiddish Book Center

* 14.10.1958, New York City, États-Unis
Réside à: Teaneck, New Jersey, États-Unis

Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, (born 1958) is a Yiddish-language poet who was born in The Bronx, New York, USA. She grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and attended Yiddish schools as a child. She began writing poetry in 1980. Several poems were published in English and Yiddish in the Hadassah magazine, the literary journal Five Fingers Review, and various anthologies. Although Schaechter-Viswanath is a native speaker of both languages, she does not write poetry in English. In 2003 her bilingual edition Plutsemdiker Regn/Sudden Rain was published in Yiddish and English.

Foto © gezett.de

Schaechter-Viswanath is a member of a leading family in Yiddish language and cultural studies. Her father, Mordkhe Schaechter, was an influential linguist of the Yiddish language. She has been active in the Yiddish movement her entire life, and has worked as an editor for several Yiddish magazines.

In addition to her work as a poet, Schaechter-Viswanath carried on and completed her father's lexicographical life's work by publishing the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary (Indiana University Press, 2016). The dictionary was the first of its kind in over half a century.

Schaechter-Viswanath graduated from the Jewish Teachers Seminary with a diploma in Jewish literature , earned degrees in Russian language (Barnard College), nursing (Columbia University) and health administration (New York University). She works as a clinical consultant in health care and remains active in Yiddish cultural endeavors.

She lives in Teaneck, New Jersey, with her husband and three children, and practices Orthodox Judaism. Her children all speak Yiddish as well as their father’s first language, Tamil.

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