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In his collection of poems The Jewish King, Oleksandr Averbukh offers, or rather invents, a writing that closely intertwines memory and forgetting, forgetting and remembering, recreation and reanimation. It is an intricate panorama of intimate, private history, connecting close family voices with voices that are completely alien, but at the same time understandable. Combining modernist traditions with documentary writing, these poems reveal the most pressing issues and the most painful, unspoken themes: Jewish catastrophes during the pogroms and the Holocaust, displaced Ostarbeiters with lost homes, and finally, language, which is constantly changing but always remains perhaps the only tool capable of conveying these experiences.