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Itskhak MARGULIS (MARGALIOT)

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Itskhak

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MARGULIS (MARGALIOT)

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1855

Date of death:

1919

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Henry Roth

Date of birth: 02/08/1906 | Date of death: 10/13/1995

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Stanislawow (Ivano-Frankivsk)

An American novelist and short story writer. His first book Call it Sleep was published in 1934.

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Bruno Schulz

Date of birth: 07/12/1892 | Date of death: 11/19/1942

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Drohobych

Bruno Schulz was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher born to Jewish parents,and regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born in Drohobych, in the Austrian sector of the Partitioned Poland, and spent most of his life there. He was killed by a German Nazi officer. Read more on Wikipedia

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The Art of Bruno Schulz

David Grossman talking about Bruno Schulz

Quotes by Bruno Schulz

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Paul Celan

Date of birth: 11/23/1920 | Date of death: 04/20/1970

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Paul Celan was one of the major German language poets and translator after World War II. His poetry being influenced by his traumatic experience during the Holocaust is distinct by its great complexity and extraordinary power. He was born as Paul Antschel into a Jewish family in Czernowitz (Cernăuţi), Northern Bukovina, a region then part of Romania and changed his name to "Paul Celan" (where Celan in Romanian would be pronounced Chelan, and was derived from Ancel, pronounced Antshel). Read more on Wikipedia

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The poem "Todesfuge" (in German)

Paul Celan: Studies in his Early Poetry - a book by Hugo Bekker

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Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Date of birth: 07/17/1888 | Date of death: 07/02/1970

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Buchach

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון‎) was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (ש"י עגנון). In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.

Agnon was born in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Ukraine). He later immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine, and died in Jerusalem, Israel.

His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world. They also attempt to recapture the fading traditions of the European shtetl (village). In a wider context, he also contributed to broadening the characteristic conception of the narrator's role in literature. Agnon shared the Nobel Prize with the poet Nelly Sachs in 1966.

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The Jewish sources in the work of Shmuel Yosef Agnon - article by Moshe Busk. (in Hebrew)

A short biography and a bibliographic list on the work of Shmuel Yosef Agnon (in Hebrew)

A lecture of Professor Dan Laor on Shai Agnon's work after the Holocaust (in Hebrew)