Name Dan Pagis | Role Poet | |
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Books The selected poetry of Dan Pagis, Variable directions, Hebrew Poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | ||
Poetry in Holocaust Education: "Testimony" by Dan Pagis
Dan Pagis (October 16, 1930 – July 29, 1986) was an Israeli poet, lecturer and Holocaust survivor.
Contents
- Poetry in Holocaust Education Testimony by Dan Pagis
- Poetry in holocaust education part 3 4 written in pencil in the sealed railway car by dan pagis
- Biography
- Poetry
- Books for children
- Non fiction
- Books in translation
- References
Poetry in holocaust education part 3 4 written in pencil in the sealed railway car by dan pagis
Biography
Dan Pagis was born in Rădăuţi, Bukovina in Romania and imprisoned as a child in a concentration camp in Ukraine. He escaped in 1944 and immigrated to Israel in 1946.
Pagis earned his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he later taught Medieval Hebrew literature. His first published book of poetry was Sheon ha-Tsel ("The Shadow Clock") in 1959. In 1970 he published a major work entitled Gilgul – which may be translated as "Revolution, cycle, transformation, metamorphosis, metempsychosis," etc. Other poems include: "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car," "Testimony, "Europe, Late," "Autobiography," and "Draft of a Reparations Agreement." Pagis knew many languages, and translated multiple works of literature.
Pagis died of cancer in Israel on July 29, 1986.
His most widely cited poem is "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car".