Hermione Frankel
Biographic Data
| ID | 314365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hermione Frankel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hermione |
| FAMILY NAME | Frankel |
| SIGNATURE | FRANKEL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6968-6202 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Babyn Yar
Journal Article Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond. Ostap Kin Get access Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond, ed. Ostap Kin, trans. John Hennessy and Ostap Kin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2023), pp. 288, hardcover $39.95, paperback $16.00, electronic version available. Hazel Frankel Hazel Frankel University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Email: Hazel.Frankel@w…
The Witness of Poetry
This article discusses a selection of Holocaust poems by Abraham Sutzkever together with several written by David Fram as they epitomise how historical forces shape individual lives, highlighting how the differences in location and experience influenced their creative output. In order to do so, it locates the poets physically and aesthetically, and then compares several poems through in-depth analyses of their choice of metaphor and language. Aff…
The Poet as Witness
This article juxtaposes Abraham Sutzkever’s Yiddish poems written in the Vilna Ghetto between 1941–1943 with the testimony he gave at the Nuremberg Trials on 27 February 1946. A witness, participant, and survivor of the annihilation, Sutzkever became an appropriate representative and unique spokesperson for the murdered Jewish victims. As evidence of a personal and collective tragedy, providing a double record of the destruction of a once-vibrant…
Shards of the Shoah in R. B. Kitaj's Painting If Not, Not (1976)
This article discusses R. B. Kitaj's painting If Not, Not (1976) with reference to issues of aesthetic representation of the Holocaust, in which Kitaj creates a cultural site for bearing witness for the Jewish victims. Striving to depict the unimaginable, Kitaj's method endorses meaning. Juxtaposing ambiguous, discordant images, he evokes a broken modern world and serves traumatic memory
From the Outside Looking In
The poetry of the Lithuanian Yiddish poet, David Fram, makes a significant contribution to the understanding of a single immigrant's relocation in a specific time and place. Drawing on a rich store of memories of the familiar old country, the poems encompass the nature of Jewish migration from Eastern Europe. However, as the effects of migration remain sadly contemporary, both in South Africa and in a broader, global arena, this article argues fo…
Home and the Holocaust in Selected Paintings of Marc Chagall and Yiddish Poems of David Fram
Marc Chagall's world-renowned paintings and the little-known Yiddish poetry of the Lithuanian-South African David Fram reflect a similar zeitgeist and time in history, but their choice of visual as opposed to verbal language affected their interpretations. This article argues for the influence of their similar origins, background, culture, and Jewishness on their oeuvres. Living in exile, their works express their longing for home and their respo…
Stones in the Landscape
Until the Holocaust in Lithuania annihilated 90% of its community between 1941 and 1944, Yiddish was a fully lived language with its own rich history and literature. David Fram escaped the genocide, having left his shtetl, the market town of Ponevezh in 1927. Once in South Africa, committed to the preservation of his mameloshn , his mother tongue, he created a rich body of Yiddish poetry. Though little known, his poems offer insights into the und…
From Steppe to Veld
This article offers detailed readings of specific poems that reflect, and reflect on, Framâ€TMs responses to the differing landscapes in which he found himself, focusing on his lyric mode and romantic inclinations. While those about Lithuania indicate his strong feelings of attachment to the icy steppes, the poems he wrote later in South Africa provide a contrast, as his changed imagery evokes the heat of the veld and the exotic luxuriance of its…
Man as Art
Canoes of Walomo
Canoes of Walomo
Man as Art
Stones in the Landscape
Until the Holocaust in Lithuania annihilated 90% of its community between 1941 and 1944, Yiddish was a fully lived language with its own rich history and literature. David Fram escaped the genocide, having left his shtetl, the market town of Ponevezh in 1927. Once in South Africa, committed to the preservation of his mameloshn , his mother tongue, he created a rich body of Yiddish poetry. Though little known, his poems offer insights into the und…
From Steppe to Veld
This article offers detailed readings of specific poems that reflect, and reflect on, Framâ€TMs responses to the differing landscapes in which he found himself, focusing on his lyric mode and romantic inclinations. While those about Lithuania indicate his strong feelings of attachment to the icy steppes, the poems he wrote later in South Africa provide a contrast, as his changed imagery evokes the heat of the veld and the exotic luxuriance of its…
Home and the Holocaust in Selected Paintings of Marc Chagall and Yiddish Poems of David Fram
Marc Chagall's world-renowned paintings and the little-known Yiddish poetry of the Lithuanian-South African David Fram reflect a similar zeitgeist and time in history, but their choice of visual as opposed to verbal language affected their interpretations. This article argues for the influence of their similar origins, background, culture, and Jewishness on their oeuvres. Living in exile, their works express their longing for home and their respo…
From the Outside Looking In
The poetry of the Lithuanian Yiddish poet, David Fram, makes a significant contribution to the understanding of a single immigrant's relocation in a specific time and place. Drawing on a rich store of memories of the familiar old country, the poems encompass the nature of Jewish migration from Eastern Europe. However, as the effects of migration remain sadly contemporary, both in South Africa and in a broader, global arena, this article argues fo…
Shards of the Shoah in R. B. Kitaj's Painting If Not, Not (1976)
This article discusses R. B. Kitaj's painting If Not, Not (1976) with reference to issues of aesthetic representation of the Holocaust, in which Kitaj creates a cultural site for bearing witness for the Jewish victims. Striving to depict the unimaginable, Kitaj's method endorses meaning. Juxtaposing ambiguous, discordant images, he evokes a broken modern world and serves traumatic memory
The Witness of Poetry
This article discusses a selection of Holocaust poems by Abraham Sutzkever together with several written by David Fram as they epitomise how historical forces shape individual lives, highlighting how the differences in location and experience influenced their creative output. In order to do so, it locates the poets physically and aesthetically, and then compares several poems through in-depth analyses of their choice of metaphor and language. Aff…
The Poet as Witness
This article juxtaposes Abraham Sutzkever’s Yiddish poems written in the Vilna Ghetto between 1941–1943 with the testimony he gave at the Nuremberg Trials on 27 February 1946. A witness, participant, and survivor of the annihilation, Sutzkever became an appropriate representative and unique spokesperson for the murdered Jewish victims. As evidence of a personal and collective tragedy, providing a double record of the destruction of a once-vibrant…
Babyn Yar
Journal Article Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond. Ostap Kin Get access Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond, ed. Ostap Kin, trans. John Hennessy and Ostap Kin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2023), pp. 288, hardcover $39.95, paperback $16.00, electronic version available. Hazel Frankel Hazel Frankel University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Email: Hazel.Frankel@w…
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