Translation as reversion: Paul Celan's Jerusalem poems. From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought | Date: September 22, 1994| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1994 American Jewish Congress. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The German poet Paul Celan is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in postwar literature. Deeply influenced by his religious heritage, Celan wrote many poems celebrating Jewish concerns, ranging from community ritual to the horrors of the wartime holocaust. An analysis of his Jerusalem poems reveals the use of the principle of translation as reversion.

IN 1933, THREATENED BY NAZISM, AN AUNT WHO had lived with Paul Celan's family during his childhood emigrated to Palestine. That year the boy also was Bar Mitzvah, and shortly afterward wrote to her about anti-Semitism ...

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