SACHS, NELLY

1891–1970, German poet and translator who lived after 1940 in Sweden. Sachs describes her own experiences and the sufferings of the European Jews in the collections In den Wohnungen des Todes [in the apartments of death] (1947), Das Leiden Israels [Israel's suffering] (1969), and Die Suchende (1966; tr. The Seeker and Other Poems, 1970). The selection of her poems in English, O the Chimneys (1967), incorporates the verse mystery play Eli (written 1943–44; publ. 1951). Sachs shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with S. Y. Agnon.

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Education in Urban Areas: Cross-National Dimensions
Book by Nelly P. Stromquist; Praeger Publishers, 1994
Subjects: Education, Urban--Cross-Cultural Studies--Congresses
...CROSS-NATIONAL DIMENSIONS EDITED BY Nelly P. Stromquist PRAEGER Westport, Connecticut...cross-national dimensions / edited by Nelly P. Stromquist. p. cm. The subject of...Cross-cultural studies--Congresses. I. Stromquist, Nelly P. LC5101.E39 1994 370.19348--dc20 93-17626...
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Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers
Book by Dagmar C. G. Lorenz; University of Nebraska Press, 1997
Subjects: German Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, German Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Influence, Jewish Women--Germany--Intellectual Life, Jews--Germany--Intellectual Life
...Lasker-Schuler, Rosa Luxemburg, Nelly Sachs, and Gertrud Kolmar. Although...Destruction A Spiri tual Perspective Nelly Sachs , 129 5. GERMAN AND...Lasker Schuler, Gertrud Kolmar, Nelly Sachs, Rose Auslander, and Katja Behrens...
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Bearing Witness: A Resource Guide to Literature, Poetry, Art, Music, and Videos by Holocaust Victims and Survivors
Book by Philip Rosen, Nina Apfelbaum; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), In Art--Catalogs, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), In Literature--Bio-Bibliography, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal Narratives--Bio-Bibliography, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs And Music--Bibliography--Catalogs, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Video Catalogs
...Emmanuel Ringelblums Oneg Shabbat archive. Nelly Toll as a child painted while in hiding...Doris Orgel, Uri Orlev, Renee Roth-Hano, Nelly Toll, Marion Wolff, and Aranka Siegal...lives to Catholic nuns. Clara Isaacman and Nelly Toll are indebted to those who risked their...
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Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
Book by Elke P. Frederiksen, Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler; Greenwood Press, 1998
Subjects: German Literature--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography, Women And Literature--Europe, German-Speaking--Bibliography, Women Authors, Austrian--Biography, Women Authors, German--Biography, Women Authors, Swiss--Biography
...III" from O the Chimneys by Nelly Sachs. Translation copyright 1967...ins Staublose. Die Gedichte der Nelly Sachs . Copyright 1961 by Suhrkamp...nach Lebenden. Die Gedichte der Nelly Sachs. Bd. 2 . Copyright 1971 by...
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The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature
Book by Friederike Eigler, Susanne Kord; Greenwood Press, 1997
Subjects: Feminism And Literature--Dictionaries, German Literature--Dictionaries, German Literature--Women Authors--Dictionaries, Women Authors, German--Biography--Dictionaries
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journal articles on: Sachs Nelly  - 21 results

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Verwandlung Und Ubersetzung: Metamorphosis, Translation and the Poetry of Nelly Sachs
Journal article by Arlan Elizabeth Hess; Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 2002
Subjects: Holocaust victims--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Hope--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sachs, Nelly--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Translations--Analysis, Women poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...translation and the poetry of Nelly Sachs by Arlan Elizabeth Hess...volume exists. This is true for Nelly Sachs. A German who shared the Nobel...people. On December 10, 1891, Nelly Sachs was born to William Sachs, a Jewish...
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Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Auslander
Journal article by Bridget Thomson; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 31, 2001
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Auslander (Book)
...and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Auslander. by BRIDGET...and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Auslander. By Kathrin M...developed in their wake. Since both Sachs and Auslander were marked for death...
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Christa Wolf Reconsidered: National Stereotypes in Kindheitsmuster
Journal article by Gretchen Wiesehan; Germanic Review, Vol. 68, 1993
Subjects: Germanic Philology
...woman and a Russian man. Christa Wolf, Moskauer Novelle, An den Tag gebracht: Prosa junger Menschen , ed. Heinz Sachs (Halle: Mitteldeutscher Veriag, 1961 ), 147-222. 27. For a favorable response, see Marie Louise Linn, " Doppelte...
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Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers
Journal article by Cathy Gelbin; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers (Book)--Book reviews
...post-war West Germany, including Peter Weiss, Gunther Anders, Nelly Sachs, and Paul Celan, Garloff tests the applicability of recent...cosmopolitanism. The next substantial chapter is dedicated to Nelly Sachss construction of the Jewish diaspora in relation...
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Using the Literature of Elie Wiesel and Selected Poetry to Teach the Holocaust in the Secondary School History Classroom
Journal article by Carol Danks; Social Studies, Vol. 87, 1996
Subjects: History--Study And Teaching
...poetry of survivor and Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs also can be used effectively in...of the Weeping Children!" ( Sachs 1995 , 638), raises the issue...moment they arrived in the camps. Sachs poem "You Onlookers" ( Sachs...
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magazine articles on: Sachs Nelly  - 5 results

 
 
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Hotlist 05: They're Bold, Innovative, Powerful-And All under 40
Magazine article; Black Enterprise, Vol. 36, December 2005
Subjects: Foot Locker Inc.--Competitions, Footwear industry--Competitions
...Billionaire Boys Club Clothing line in 2004. Known for churning out hits with Neptunes partner Chad Hugo for the likes of Jay-Z, Nelly, and Usher, Williams has produced a host of songs for music soundtracks for Hitch, Girl Next Door, and Daredevil. Right now...
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Board Stiffs
Magazine article by David Shenk; Washington Monthly, Vol. 24, May 1992
Subjects: Aramony, William--Management, Charities--Finance, Corporate directors--Management, Nonprofit organizations--Management, United Way of America--Finance
...or two. Thats not a lot of money.... Theres no way to smell something like that," says board member J. Fred Weintz, a Goldman Sachs executive. "We were dependent on a process," says McCoy, and the process was flawed." Adds San Francisco lawyer and board...
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No Belles: The Second Sex
Magazine article by Gosta Wranglen; National Review, Vol. 48, November 11, 1996
Subjects: Genius--Demographic aspects, Gifted persons--Demographic aspects, Gifted women--Statistics, Nobel prizes--Demographic aspects
...were women (Selma Lagerlof, 1909; Grazia Deledda, 1926; Sigrid Undset, 1928; Pearl Buck, 1938; Gabriela Mistral, 1945; Nelly Sachs, 1966; Nadine Gordimer, 1991; and Toni Morrison, 1993). This makes 8.7 per cent. Still, out of a total of 563 Nobel...
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Ingeborg Bachmann: Complex and Compelling
Magazine article by John Taylor; The Antioch Review, Vol. 65, Fall 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Darkness Spoken (Book)--Book reviews, Last Living Words: The Ingeborg Bachmann Reader (Book)--Book reviews, The Night Begins with a Question: XXV Austrian Poems 1978-2002 (Book)--Book reviews
...As to the reliable versions of Darkness Spoken, an oversight occurs in "The Tightened Lip," dedicated to the poet Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), who despite her 1966 Nobel Prize also remains mostly unknown to English readers. Filkins oddly renders...
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Salvation from Innocence: On the Requirements of Liturgical Truth
Magazine article by Andrew Shanks; Cross Currents, Vol. 52, Summer 2002
Subjects: Liturgies, Redemption--Social aspects, Repentance--Social aspects, Salvation
...prophet Amos; or again for instance in William Blake. Its there, also, in the jagged melancholy of Friedrich Holderlin. Or Nelly Sachs. (To cite only the examples that I myself am most intrigued by.) And what Im proposing is a new approach to liturgy...


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newspaper articles on: Sachs Nelly  - 2 results

 
 
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Cutting It in the Eyes of the Law; Victoria Richards Talks to Actress Sian Reeves about Her New Series Admin Which She's Convinced Will Be "Bigger and Better Than the Office"
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 10, 2008
Subjects: Motion picture actors and actresses--Laws, regulations and rules, Movie actors--Laws, regulations and rules
...department so its really not high up at all, but she thinks she owns Sachs Fifth Avenue in New York! "Its brilliant. David said it was...then as it is now! I also have family in Ponthenry - my Aunty Nelly is there - and Ive got friends in Aberporth with children of...
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THE [Pounds Sterling]8 BILLION DOT.BOMB; (1)A Tiny Group of Online Gambling Entrepreneurs Float Their Companies, Which Then Shoot into the Top 100 British Businesses. They Cash in [Pounds Sterling]1.5 Billion of Their Chips and Distance Themselves from Their Own Firms - Just as the US Outlaws Them, Causing a Multibillion-Pound Share Crash. Caroline Graham and Nick Gilbert Report on the Players Who Broke the Bank with a Busted Flush
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 18, 2006
...Stock Exchange gamble. They glossed over problems, and brushed aside the fact that none of the top American banks - Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley (which normally play a big role in London stock-market flotations) - took part. None took on...


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encyclopedia articles on: Sachs Nelly  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Sachs, Nelly
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
SACHS, NELLY , 1891 1970, German poet and translator who lived after 1940 in Sweden. Sachs describes her own experiences and the sufferings...play Eli (written 1943 44; publ. 1951). Sachs shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature...
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Agnon, S. Y
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...as Samuel Josef Czaczkes. Widely regarded as the greatest 20th-century writer of fiction in Hebrew, he shared (with Nelly Sachs ) the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature. Agnon settled in Palestine in 1907 and spent most of his life in Jerusalem. His...
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Nobel Prizes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...A. Sholokhov 1966 Robert S. Mulliken Alfred Kastler Francis Peyton Rous Charles Brenton Huggins S. Y. Agnon Nelly Sachs 1967 Manfred Eigen Ronald George Wreyford Norrish George Porter Hans Albrecht Bethe Ragnar Granit Haldan Keffer...


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