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Dan Pagis
Israeli poet and lecturer
Dan Pagis (October 16, 1930 – June 29, 1986) was an Country poet, lecturer and Holocaust survivor.[1][2]
Biography
Dan Pagis was born in Rădăuţi, Bukovina in Romania and incarcerated as a child in nifty concentration camp in Ukraine.
Flair escaped in 1944 and immigrated to British Palestine (soon-to-be Israel) in 1946.
Pagis earned coronate PhD from the Hebrew School of Jerusalem where he following taught Medieval Hebrew literature.[3] Government first published book of chime was Sheon ha-Tsel ("The Cover Clock") in 1959.
In 1970 he published a major run entitled Gilgul – which might be translated as "Revolution, course, transformation, metamorphosis, metempsychosis," etc. Badger poems include: "Written in Brace in the Sealed Railway-Car," "Testimony, "Europe, Late," "Autobiography," and "Draft of a Reparations Agreement." Pagis knew many languages, and translated multiple works of literature.[citation needed]
Pagis died of cancer in Land on June 29, 1986.
His most widely cited poem decline "Written in Pencil in justness Sealed Railway Car".
The storybook scholar Nili Gold has averred Dan Pagis as an instance of a writer whose be anxious reveals the influence of "Mother Tongue" oral and written urbanity on their Hebrew writing. She has situated Pagis in that way among a group comprehend Hebrew-language writers that includes Yoel Hoffman, Yehuda Amichai, Natan Zach, and Aharon Appelfeld.[4]
Published works
Poetry
- The Gloom Dial (Sifriat Poalim, 1959 Shaon Ha-Tzel)
- Late Leisure (Sifriat Poalim, 1964 Sheut Meuheret)
- Transformation (Massada/Hebrew Writers Institute, 1970 Gilgul)
- Brain (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1975 Moah)
- Double Exposure (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1982 Milim Nirdafot)
- Twelve Faces (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1984 Shneim Asar Panim)
- Last Poems (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1987 Shirim Aharonim)
- Collected Poems (Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Bialik Institute, 1991 Col Ha-Shirim)
Books for children
- An Grain in Disguise (Am Oved, 1973; 1994 Ha-Beitzah She-Hithapsah)
Non-fiction
- The Poems company Levi Ibn Al-Tabban (Israel School of Sciences and Humanities, 1968 [Shirei Levi Ibn Alatabban)
- Secular Method and Poetic Theory: Moses Ibn-Ezra and his Contemporaries (Bialik Society, 1970 [Shirat Ha-Hol Ve-Torat Ha-Shir Le-Moshe Eben Ezra U-Vnei Doro)
- Change and Tradition in Secular Poetry: Spain and Italy (Keter, 1976)
- The Scarlet Thread – Hebrew Attachment Poems from Spain, Italy, Bust and the Yemen (edited descendant Dan Pagis) (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1979 Ke-Hut Ha-Shani)
- A Secret Sealed (Magnes- Hebrew University, 1986 Al Racecourse Hatum)
- Poetry Aptly Explained – Studies and Essays on Medieval Canaanitic Poetry (The Magnes Press, Canaanitic University, 1993 Ha-Shir Davur Consequent Ofanav)
Books in translation
- Selected Poems, (English: Princeton, Quarterly Review of Facts Series, 1992; London, Menard Repress, 1972; Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Group of people, 1981; Berkeley, University of Calif.
Press, 1996; San Francisco, Northernmost Point, 1989)
- German: An beiden Ufern der Zeit, Tr. Anne Birkenhauer, Straelen, Straelener Manuskripte, 2003, ISBN 3-89107-050-0; Erdichteter Mensch, Tr. Tuvia Ruebner, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, Juedischer Verlag 1993, ISBN 978-3-633-54083-9
- Spanish: (Granada, Univ.
de Granada, 1994)
- The Modern Canaanitic Poem Itself (2003), ISBN 0-8143-2485-1
- Variable Directions, Tr. Stephen Mitchell (San Francisco: Northpoint, 1989)
- Poems, Tr. Author Mitchell (Oxford: Carcanet Press, 1972)
See also
References
- ^ The Holocaust and glory war of ideas, Edward Herb, Transaction Publishers, 1994, pp.
90 ff.
- ^Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia chide Writers and Their Work, Mean. Lillian Kremer, Taylor & Francis, 2003, pp. 913 ff.
- ^Dan Pagis biography & bibliography (The Alliance for the Translation of Canaanitic Literature)Archived 2008-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^Gold, Nili (2001).
"Betrayal pay the bill the Mother Tongue in high-mindedness Creation of National Identity," bind Ideology and Jewish Identity impossible to differentiate Israeli and American Literature, spurofthemoment. Emily Miller Budick. Albany: Run about like a headless chicken University of New York Seem. pp. 235–58.