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RETROSPECT
Suesskind von Trimperg was a
perpetual seeker of truth and
justice, a warm advocate for the
relief of his people suffering great
misery and injustice. His heart
went out to the poor and the
stricken and he strove relentless
ly to alleviate their woes. Yearn
ing with all his tender Jewish
heart towards the great, the noble,
the just, his soul quivers with
emotion and sincere pity at the
sufferings of every human crea
ture. His words are vivid and
vibrant in their brevty and, de
spite their paucity, express much.
His songs sing of the troubles
and sorrows of the poor little
man, who toils away all his life
to “earn but a gulden with a
hole in it,” as the Yiddish folk
song says.
There is beauty and loftiness of
conception in his philosophic re
flections on abstract things such
as human thought; there is great
finesse of touch when he lays
bare the tricks of shrewd men
trying to hide behind an honest
mask; there is a tender, touching
plea for the “big bad wolf” whose
sufferings and cruel fate mean
for him an eloquent symbol of his
persecuted brethren. This wolf,
hurling a bitter complaint to
heaven against the cruelty and
injustice of the world, is the
wronged, persecuted Jew. The
misery of his unhappy people left
an indelible impression on him.
There is a tragic element in
Suesskind’s poems, a clinging to
life within the tenacity of a full-
blooded German being, he is con
scious of the iron grip of inexor
able death upon him, and it bit
terly mars all his joy of life.
A critical e amination of Suess
kind’s poems will stand every
test. They show nobility and
reality of sentiment and deal with
a wide range of subjects. They
are intense in their passion, biting
in their bitter satire, eloquent in
their piety. His chief object was
to disseminate knowledge and
spread ideas dear to him. Al
though he was not directly an in
novator in style or poetic form,
yet he was the first and only
minnesinger and poet of Jewish
descent who wrote in German.
Many utterances found in his
poems had never before fallen
from the lips of a Jew. Before and
after him, Jewish poets lamented
the hard fate of their woe-stricken
brethren, had been desolate be
cause of Jew-baiting; but Suess
kind von Trimperg, in his duality
as German-Jewish Minnesinger,
must De assigned a special place
in Jewish literature for the charm
of his verses and his constant Jew
ish consciousness.
His poems are as much a part
of Judaism as the works of the
most pious biblical commentator,
or of the learned historian of Jew
ish culture.”
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