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Shlomo of Radzymin: the forgotten art of Shloyme Gilbert

Grant for the Radzymin Municipal Public Library for the project “Shlomo of Radzymin: the forgotten art of Shloyme Gilbert”

“Shlomo of Radzymin: the forgotten art of Shloyme Gilbert” commemorates a pre-war writer of poetry, stories, and drama. Born in Radzymin, Shloyme Gilbert worked exclusively in Yiddish. To make his art accessible to readers today, the Radzymin Municipal Public Library and municipality, are translating selected poems into Polish and then presenting them by actors from the Ot Tak Theater.