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Paul Celan was born in 1920 in Czernowitz, then part of Romania, now part of Ukraine. He was named Paul Antschel. Clarice Lispector was also born in 1920 in Ukraine. Her birth name was Chaya Pinkhasovna Lispector. Maya Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowski in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1917. Peter Hujar was born Peter Hujar in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1934. His grandparents were from Poland.
“A region in which human beings and books used to live,” said Celan, with ironic understatement, describing his native country. His Jewish parents were taken to a Nazi labor camp in 1942, where his father died of typhoid fever, and his mother was murdered — shot in the neck — by the Germans for being unfit to work. Celan grew up with his family’s Jewish traditions and a deep love for German literature, which came from his mother. German, he would say, was his mother’s tongue and the tongue of her murderers (‘Muttersprache und Mördersprache’). He saw himself a…
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Paul Celan was born in 1920 in Czernowitz, then part of Romania, now part of Ukraine. He was named Paul Antschel. Clarice Lispector was also born in 1920 in Ukraine. Her birth name was Chaya Pinkhasovna Lispector. Maya Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowski in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1917. Peter Hujar was born Peter Hujar in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1934. His grandparents were from Poland.
“A region in which human beings and books used to live,” said Celan, with ironic understatement, describing his native country. His Jewish parents were taken to a Nazi labor camp in 1942, where his father died of typhoid fever, and his mother was murdered — shot in the neck — by the Germans for being unfit to work. Celan grew up with his family’s Jewish traditions and a deep love for German literature, which came from his mother. German, he would say, was his mother’s tongue and the tongue of her murderers (‘Muttersprache und Mördersprache’). He saw himself a…
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