Black Honey, The Life and and Poetry of Avraham Sutskever

A documentary film. The life story of Avrom Sutzkever, one of the greatest Yiddish poets of the twentieth century. Sutzkever helped save rare Jewish books and manuscripts from the Nazis, joined the partisans, and after escaping the Vilna Ghetto, was brought to the USSR as the result of the actions of Jewish writers linked to the regime. After the war, Sutzkever testified at the Nuremberg Trials, and left Europe for Israel with his family. There he founded the most important Yiddish language literary magazine of the period, but did not gain recognition.