Home and Homelessness in the Poetry of Rokhl Korn (1898-1982)

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Home and Homelessness in the Poetry of Rokhl Korn (1898-1982)
Abstract
The East Galicia-born Rokhl Häring Korn (1898-1982), a major figure in modern Yiddish literature, immigrated to Montreal in 1948. The author maintains that while some argue that Korn's poetry can be divided into two thematic groups - "village" and "home" - she was also able to brilliantly fuse these themes. The author points out that this becomes especially evident in two of Korn's poems: “Mayn heym” (“My Home”) and “Fun yener zayt lid” (“On the Other Side of the Poem”). Together, these two poems not only capture and intricately interweave the most significant and characteristic features both of Korn's village and love poems, but also enable her to poetically recapture and reconstruct the dislocation, destruction, and despair that had marked much of her war-era life in Europe. The dislocation, loss and anguish of the war years are captured in her first postwar collection of poems, "Heym un heymlozikayt" ("Home and Homelessness").
Publication
Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
Volume
Vol. 18-19
Pages
3-13
Date
2010-2011
Language
en
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Citation
Frank, Esther. “Home and Homelessness in the Poetry of Rokhl Korn (1898-1982).” Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes Vol. 18-19 (2011 2010): 3–13. http://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/36137/32778.
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