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    Exile At Last: Selected Poems
    Exile At Last: Selected Poems
    Exile At Last: Selected Poems
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    Exile At Last: Selected Poems

    By Chava Rosenfarb and Goldie Morgentaler

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    When Chava Rosenfarb arrived in Montreal in February 1950, she was already a published poet with one acclaimed volume, Di balade fun nekhtikn vald (The Ballad of Yesterday? Forest) to her credit. She was also a Holocaust survivor who, after being liberated from Bergen Belsen in 1945 had crossed the border illegally into Belgium, where she lived with her mother, sister and husband, all Holocaust survivors. In 1950 Rosenfarb? Montreal publisher, Harry Hershman, who had just published a Canadian edition of Di balade fun nekhtikn vald sponsored the entire group to come to Canada. Rosenfarb and her family settled in Montreal. Almost all of the poems in this collection were originally published in Yiddish. Chava Rosenfarb herself translated most of them into English. The poems have been arranged so that they follow roughly the chronology of Rosenfarb? life, beginning with the poems she wrote in the Lodz ghetto as a young girl and moving to the more mature poems of her years in Canada.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuernica Editions Inc
    Release dateJan 1, 2013
    ISBN9781550716825
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      Exile At Last - Chava Rosenfarb

      Chava

      Rosenfarb

      exile at last:

      Selected Poems

      ESSENTIAL POETS SERIES 198

      Edited by Goldie Morgentaler

      GUERNICA

      TORONTO • BUFFALO • BERKELEY • LANCASTER (U.K.)

      2013

      For Ken Sherman, with gratitude and affection

      Contents

      Preface 9

      Introduction 11

      PART I Echoes of the Ghetto

      Freedom 21

      Ghetto Lullaby 22

      Isaac’s Dream 24

      Last Lullaby 27

      Last Days in the Ghetto 29

      The End of the Act 31

      He Asked Me 32

      PART II Questions of Faith

      A Prayer 35

      Rachel and Leah 36

      Oriental Ballad 37

      Twilight at Dawn 39

      I Would Go into a Prayer House 40

      PART III Poems Personal and Domestic

      Praise 45

      My Paper Worlds 47

      Breakfast 48

      Laugh With Me 50

      Rendezvous 51

      Landscape 52

      Child 53

      A Dress for my Child 54

      My Children 56

      Daughter 58

      Nocturne 59

      The Aquarium 61

      At the Window 62

      The Tree of Love 63

      The Woman 64

      Little Lives 67

      The Three Little Goldfish 68

      To a Dying Goldfish 70

      Peace 72

      Bourne End 73

      Exile at Last 75

      Notes 77

      About The Author 79

      About The Editor 80

      Preface

      When Chava Rosenfarb arrived in Montreal in February 1950, she was already a published poet with one acclaimed volume, Di balade fun nekhtikn vald (The Ballad of Yesterday’s Forest) to her credit. She was also a Holocaust survivor who, after being liberated from Bergen Belsen in 1945 had crossed the border illegally into Belgium, where she lived with her mother, sister and husband, all Holo­caust survivors. In 1950 Rosenfarb’s Montreal publisher, Harry Hershman, who had just published a Canadian edition of Di balade fun nekhtikn vald sponsored the entire group to come to Canada. Rosenfarb and her family settled in Montreal.

      Almost all of the poems in this collection were originally pub­lished in Yiddish. Chava Rosenfarb herself translated most of them into English. The exceptions are: I Would Go into a Prayer House; He Asked Me, Daughter, and Rachel and Leah, which I translated. The poems Peace, Bourne End and Exile at Last were originally written in English and have never been published. Some of

      the other poems have been published in English in Rosenfarb’s own translation: Praise in Prism International and Aquarium in Judaism; At the Window in the Australian journal Bridges; Bourne End and My Children in the British journal Jewish Quarterly; Rachel and Leah, The Three Little Goldfish and A Dress for my Child in the American journal Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal. A translation of I Would Go into a Prayer House by Abraham J. Karp was published in Conservative Judaism in Sum­mer 1966 and republished in the journal Jewish Roots in December 1966. Isaac’s Dream and I Would Go into a Prayer House were published in the June 2010 issue of Literature and Theology.

      Most of the poems presented here are from Rosenfarb’s last

      book of poetry, Aroys fun gan-eydn (Out of Paradise, 1965). The ghetto poems are from the volume Di balade fun nekhtikn vald (The Ballad

      of Yesterday’s Forest). I have arranged the poems so that they follow roughly the chronology of Rosenfarb’s life, beginning with the poems she wrote in the Lodz ghetto as a young girl and moving to the more mature poems of her years in Canada. The selection re­flects my own preferences. I also want to extend a heartfelt thanks to Rivka Augenfeld for alerting me to the poem Landscape.

      Rosenfarb’s introduction was also originally written in Eng­lish and was

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