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Article: Amir Eshel Zeit der Zasur. Judische Dichter im Angesicht der Shoah. (Briefly Noted). (book review)
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- The Germanic Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1999. Pp. 244.
Time and temporality play a key role in the poetry of Jewish authors in the face of the Shoah. In his study, Amir Eshel argues that time's flow and pause, continuity and rupture, function as central themes in the writing of contemporary Jewish poets such as Paul Celan, Rose Auslander, Tuvia Rubner, Nelly Sachs, Dan Pagis, Yehuda Amichai, and Jacob Glatshteyn.
Although poets such as Celan and Sachs have become fixtures in the canon of German literature and have not lacked considerable attention, their reception has been marked by an emphasis on the "German" aspect, curiously sidestepping a critical discussion of the ...