Article: Dan Pagis and the poetry of displacement.

It is a curious fact that the three leading Hebrew poets of the generation that began to publish shortly after the founding of the State of Israel were all born in German-speaking Europe-Dan Pagis in Bukovina, Yehuda Amichai in Bavaria, and Nathan Zach in Berlin. Of the three, Pagis's cultural displacement was the most drastic. Zach and Amichai both were brought to Palestine with their families in the mid-1930s, Zach at the age of five and Amichai at the age of twelve. Pagis did not reach Palestine until 1946, after having spent the first part of his adolescence in a Nazi concentration camp. The product of a Germanized Jewish home in what was once an eastern province of the ...

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