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Paul Celan
Paul Celan , pseud. of Paul Antschel , 1920-70, Romanian-French poet. Although he spent his early years in Romania and his later years in France, Celan wrote in German and is widely considered the greatest postwar poet in Europe. A Jew, who lost both parents in a Nazi camp, he composed works that... Read more |
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Crispus
Crispus , in the New Testament, prominent Corinthian Jew converted by St. Paul.... Read more |
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the Wandering Jew
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Henry Hart Milman
Henry Hart Milman 1791-1868, English clergyman, poet, and historian, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, from 1849. He was the author of several dramatic poems as well as some important historical works. His History of the Jews (1830) was the first work of English theology to subject the Bible... Read more |
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Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler German businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) saved Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia from death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II by employing them in his factory. Oskar Schindler was the unlikeliest of heroes-indifferent to religion and politics, partial to... Read more |
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Septuagint
Septuagint [Lat.,=70], oldest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made by Hellenistic Jews, possibly from Alexandria, c.250 BC Legend, according to the fictional letter of Aristeas, records that it was done in 72 days by 72 translators for Ptolemy Philadelphus, which accounts for the name.... Read more |
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Cochin Jew
Cochin Jews ETHNONYMS: Cochin Jews, Cochinis (Israel), Malabar Jews, Paradesi Jews, Black Jews Orientation Identification and Location. The Cochin Jews constitute one of the smallest Jewish communities in the world. They originate from the Malabar Coast in India and traditionally were... Read more |
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Chebar
Chebar , in the Bible, river of Mesopotamia, by which captive Jews were settled.... Read more |
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Ethiopian Jews
ETHIOPIAN JEWS Jews of Ethiopia, many of whom have emigrated to Israel. In Ethiopia, the Jews referred to themselves as Beta Israel (the House of Israel) but were most commonly known as Falashas (wanderers, outsiders). In Israel, these same people call themselves Ethiopian Jews,... Read more |
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Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew.
...Celan is that Romanian-Jewish poet who, though serving in labor...Chalfen's invaluable book, Paul Celan: A Biography of His Youth goes...second points. John Felstiner's Paul Celan: Poet, ... |
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Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew.(Brief Article)
...critics as a hermetic poet, Paul Celan himself insisted...poet, Holocaust survivor, and Jew. Though the intertwining...Holocaust. How deeply Celan was indebted to...lacking photos of Celan's ... |
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Celan, the poet of painful Yahrzeit.(Paul Celan)
...has what all poets would like to...coming from Celan's background...biography. When Celan is lyrical...language. Where Celan, as in the...biography, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor ... |
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A triptych for Paul Celan
...John Felstiner. New York: Persea Books, 1991. Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew. By JOHN FELSTINER. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Paul Celan /Nelly Sachs: Correspondence, translated by... |
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Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan.(Book Review)
...of an initiation into Celan's poetic thinking...to an aspect of this poet's work. The result...Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan grows out of John Felstiner's biography Paul Celan: Poet, ... |
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Paul Celan/Nelly Sachs: Correspondence.
...Celan is that Romanian-Jewish poet who, though serving in labor...Chalfen's invaluable book, Paul Celan: A Biography of His Youth goes...second points. John Felstiner's Paul Celan: Poet, ... |
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Paul Celan: A Biography of His Youth.
...Celan is that Romanian-Jewish poet who, though serving in labor...Chalfen's invaluable book, Paul Celan: A Biography of His Youth goes...second points. John Felstiner's Paul Celan: Poet, ... |
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John Felstiner, Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan.(Book Review)
...For many years, poet Michael Hamburger...101 Poems by Paul Celan is translated by...Poems and Prose of Paul Celan is translated...critical biography of Celan, incorporating...translations in the book, Paul ... |
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Witnesses to our times: Isaac Babel and Paul Celan; Two seminal
...to our times: Isaac Babel and Paul Celan; Two seminal writers. who forged...University Press, 126 pages, $20.PAUL CELAN: POET, SURVIVOR, JEW, BY JOHN Felstiner. Yale University...is also true that the life ... |
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Celan's Ironic Destiny
...08-04-1995 Celan's Ironic Destiny...fell to a Jewish survivor of Nazi atrocities...superb study "Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor...makes clear, Celan had no stake...when he is a Jew and the ... |
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