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Childhood: An Autobiographical Fragment

Childhood: An Autobiographical Fragment

Rosenkranz, Moses
Dollenmayer, David
Huff, Matthias

Hardcover

Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0815631782
ISBN13: 9780815631781
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Dec 24 2007
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.24 Depth: 8.59
Language: English

Translated from the original Kindheit, written in 1958 and published in German in 2003, David Dollenmayer's edition makes this remarkable work available to a much-deserved wider audience. Moses Rosenkranz came from impoverished roots in rural Bucovina and gained acclaim for his poetry only late in his life. He survived the same Rumanian fascist work camp as his fellow poet Paul Celan, only to be arrested by the Russians in 1947 and interned in the Gulag for ten years.

With his richly detailed recollections of rural life among Jews, Ukrainians, Rumanians, Poles, and Germans in Bucovina, a colorful parade of characters, and a remarkable eloquence, Rosenkranz recaptures a vanished moment of cultural history. The author's unvarnished portraits of love, jealousy, and passion in his extensive family bring a fresh resonance to his poetry.

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