Couplets written by a South Carolina slave on huge clay pots that now sell for $40,000 were one of slavery's earliest acts of sedition.

On the 95th anniversary of the Yiddish poet Lajser Ajchenrand's birth, the Swiss publishing company Ammann published in German "MIMAAMAKIM"("Aus der Tiefe" first published in Paris, 1953), his most significant collection of poems.