LOYAL SINS by Yaakov Glatstein Jacob (Yankele) Glatstein (1896-1971) was one of the leading lights of Yiddish literature in America. Born in Lublin, Poland, he emigrated to New York in 1914, where he affiliated with a modern literary movement (In Sich) that rejected the traditional forms of Yiddish poetry. Like Walt Whitman's poetry which he greatly admired, Glatstein's poetry -- with its free verse and surrealistic symbolism -- had an ''American rhythm." Glatstein was also a prolific publicist, journalist, literary critic and editor. In Loyal Sins, Glatstein examines the issue of assumption of collective guilt and collective responsibility. From Yom Kippur Shacharit (morning) prayer, Mahzor manuscript Scribe: David bar Pesah Germany, 14th century   My loyal sins, I've never really committed you and never even done you as one does good deeds. I've mumbled you off dutifully, you never even penetrated me, teased me to the bone like good deeds that flap in the memory like a fine apt proverb. Blessings on your dear eyes that have good-deeded me pieces of raw life, pieces of grass where I now rest my head and dream sharp dreams. You're my fate. My blessing.   TISHREI Table of Contents