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  Literary Encyclopedia: Nelly Sachs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sachs is also lyrically indebted to her predecessor, the Expressionist German Jewish woman poet Else Lasker-Schüler, with regard to biblical motifs and apocalyptic imagery.
Nelly Sachs seems to have been plagued by survivors’ guilt, and much of her writing is an attempt to reckon with this dilemma.
Sachs has invoked the memory of those lost by speaking for those who have survived and appealing to the beneficence of an unnamed group of people (are they other survivors or the victims in the afterlife?) for the spiritual power to overcome the perils and horrors of the Holocaust.
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 Nelly Sachs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nelly Sachs, (10 December 1891, Berlin 12 May 1970, Stockholm) was a German poet and dramatist who was transformed by the Nazi experience from a dilettante into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews.
Born in Schöneberg, Berlin in 1891, she fled in 1940 to Sweden.
On her passing in 1970, Nelly Sachs was interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
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 Nelly Sachs (1891-1970)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sachs saw victims as part of eternal metamorphosis and in her work she returned especially in the fate of Job.
Sachs never married, but the image of a male lover was recurrent in her poems; her only significant romanticn affair, with a non-Jewish man, ended in disappointment.
Sachs rarely breaks loose her rage like Primo Levi in his poem 'Shema', but transcends the tragedy of the Jewish people and her apocalyptic vision and conveys a message of reconciliation and resurrection.
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 Nelly Sachs - Autobiography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leonie Nelly Sachs, born in Berlin on December 10, 1891.
Nelly Sachs's career as a poet of note started only after her emigration, when she was nearly fifty years old.
Nelly Sachs has received awards in Sweden and Germany, among them the Prize of the Swedish Poets Association (1958) and the "Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels" (1965).
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Nelly, (she was called Leone at birth) Sachs was the only child of a
Nelly Sachs was almost fifty years old when she reached Sweden.
Nelly Sachs died in 1970 at the age of seventy eight.
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 AllRefer.com - Nelly Sachs (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nelly Sachs 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.
Sachs shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with S. Agnon.
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 Nelly Sachs --  Encyclopædia Britannica
in full Nelly Leonie Sachs German poet and dramatist who was transformed by the Nazi experience from a dilettante into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews.
In 1966 he was the corecipient, with Nelly Sachs, of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Dubbed the Uncle Tom's Cabin of song, his best-known composition, “Darling Nelly Gray,” tells the tragic story of a runaway slave and his unsuccessful efforts to win freedom for his beloved, Nelly.
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 Amazon.com: Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs: Correspondence: Books: Paul Celan,Nelly Sachs,Christopher Clark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sachs, a generation older than he, escaped from Germany to Sweden prior to the war, continued writing in German, and went on to win the Nobel Prize.
Even while they lived, Nelly Sachs and Paul Celan seemed to have receded into the remoteness of legends.
Nelly Sachs, "his Li", loved him, no doubt.
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 Nelly Sachs Winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature
Nelly Sachs Winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature
Ethics and Remembrance : In the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Auslander (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) (by Kathrin M. Bower)
Nelly Sachs - poetry and analysis (submitted by Bill Sackett)
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 Poetry: Nelly Sachs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Nelly Sachs page features biographical information on Nobel prize-winner Sachs, a selected bibliography, and links to pages on other women who have received the Nobel prize.
It features Internet links to Sachs' biographical information, her poetry, and other women Nobel Prize Laureates, including Marie Curie, Barbara McClintock, and Toni Morrison.
A poet and playwright born in Berlin of Jewish parents, Sachs escaped from Nazi Germany in 1940 to Stockholm, where she became a Swedish citizen, and eventually won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966.
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 Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter
"Poignant reading and an absolute must for anyone interested in 20th century literature or the effects of the Holocaust on those it touched."
These letters are thoroughly annotated and the editors have included a chronology of the lives of the two poets.
"What Paul Celan once said of his mother tongue holds as well for Nelly Sachs:...
Find all 8 books and editions by Nelly Sachs at Amazon.com.
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