Czernowitzers...
It was fellow member Irene Fishler from Haifa, who drew my attention to an exhibition catalog for a Selma Meerbaum exhibition, organized by the Solingen Art Museum in 2014. The curator for this exhibition was Helmut Braun, the chairman of the Rose Ausländer Society and the editor of the Edgar Hilsenrath edition. The title of the exhibition, same as Helmut Braun's book on Selma Meerbaum, was "Du, weißt du wie ein Rabe schreit? [Do you know how a raven shrieks?]:
http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.de/2017/04/du-weit-du-wie-ein-rabe-schreit-do-you.html
https://goo.gl/SCCmdG
For those, who read German, enjoy the generously illustrated catalog; for those who don't, enjoy Selma's poetry by taking the example of her famous poem from March 1941, before she died of typhus at the age of 18 in Transnistria in 1942:
"Do You Know ...
Do you now how a raven shrieks?
And how Lady Night, afraid and pale,
does not know where to flee?
How the frightened night can't tell
is it or is it not her realm,
does she belong to the wind or he to her,
and are not the rapacious wolves
poised to devour their prey?
Do you know how the wind howls shrilly?
And how the woods, afraid and pale,
do not know where to flee?
How the frightened woods can't tell
is it or is it not their realm,
do they belong to the rain or the night,
and isn't Death, who's laughing grimly,
their almighty lord and master?
Do you know how the rain is weeping?
And how I walk, afraid and pale,
and don't know where to flee?
How this frightened girl can't tell
is it or is it not her realm,
does the night belong to me, or I to her,
and isn't my mouth, so pale and confused,
the one that's really crying?
March 4, 1941
[Translated by Jerry Glenn and Florian Birkmayer,
with Helene Silverblatt and Irene Silverblatt,
in "Harvest of Blossoms - Poems from a Life Cut Short",
edited by Helene Silverblatt and Irene Silverblatt,
Northwestern University Press, 2008."]
Edgar Hauster
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