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Article: Im Zeichen der Shoah: Aspekte der Dichtungs- und Sprachkrise bei Rose Auslander und Nelly Sachs.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2003
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Im Zeichen der Shoah: Aspekte der Dichtungs- und Sprachkrise bei Rose Auslander und Nelly Sachs. By ANNETTE JAEL LEHMANN. (Stauffenburg Colloquium, 47) Tubingen: Stauffenburg. 1999. xxvi+246 pp. 43.50 [euro]. ISBN 3-86057-147-8 (pbk).
This monograph, a Berlin doctoral thesis from the school of Eberhard Lammert with an input from California, sets out to compare and contrast two Jewish women poets in whose lives there are striking surface similarities and whose 'Jewishness' was thrust upon them by National Socialist policies and practices. A loss of roots and their reconstruction is a constant theme for the sheltered Berlin daughter saved by Sweden and also for the ...