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The Prayer House of Chava Rosenfarb: Poetry, Religion and the Shadow of the Holocaust
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The Prayer House of Chava Rosenfarb: Poetry, Religion and the Shadow of the Holocaust
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The author focuses on the poetry of the Yiddish-Canadian novelist and poet Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011), a Holocaust survivor and author of Der boim fun lebn (1972) (1985). Rosenfarb is known primarily for her novels and short stories, but she was also an accomplished poet. Although a lifelong atheist, several of Rosenfarb's poems centre on religious themes, specifically on how Jewish traditional belief and the Jewish longing for God are nullified by the fact of the Holocaust. This theme, which balances between the longing for faith and the acknowledgement of its impossibility is expressed in two of Rosenfarb's poems, "Isaac’s Dream" and "I Would Go Into a Prayer House". Using these two poems as proof texts, the author, Rosenfarb's daughter, analyzes the religious poetry of a secular author who is also one of the last Yiddish-language writers.
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Literature and Theology
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Vol. 24
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no. 2
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161-174
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2010
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en
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Morgentaler, Goldie. “The Prayer House of Chava Rosenfarb: Poetry, Religion and the Shadow of the Holocaust.” Literature and Theology Vol. 24, no. 2 (2010): 161–174.
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