ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN: The Shoah Poetry

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="039f0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B>ABRAHAM  MOSES KLEIN: The Shoah Poetry</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="038f2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="lecture_teaching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults"><U><B>Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teenager Education Topics "><U><B>Teenager Education Topics</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Shoah/Holocaust"><U><B>The </B></U></A><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Shoah/Holocaust"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="READING THE SHOAH: Poetry and Memory"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Reading the </B></U></A><A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="READING THE SHOAH: Poetry and Memory"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SHAPING THE SHOAH: the Second Generation"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Shaping the </B></U></A><A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SHAPING THE SHOAH: the Second Generation"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><B> and Jewish Women's Poetry</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH: Gentile Responses to Jewish D"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH: Gentile Responses to Jewish D"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH: Gentile Responses to Jewish D"><U><B>: Gentile Responses to Jewish Disaster</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND HUMAN RIGHTS"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The</B></U></A><A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND HUMAN RIGHTS"><U><I><B> Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND HUMAN RIGHTS"><U><B> and Human Rights</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><B> and Jewish Women's Poetry</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact JEWISH VOICES"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Contact JEWISH VOICES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Voices 200 Years of Jewish Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03bf0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><B>The </B></I><B>Shoah</B><I><B> Poetry of Abraham Moses Klein</B></I></div> <bR> <div>     Klein (1909-1972) was the<I><B> </B></I><I><B><U>only</U></B></I><I><B> </B></I>English-speaking poet who committed himself to chronicle the <I><B>Shoah</B></I><I><B>, </B></I>from Hitler's rise to power and the Nuremburg laws, through the deportations, murders, and the begrudged creation of the State of Israel.  His brilliant, devastating works satirize Hitler, rewrite the Psalms to adjust genocide to Jewish historiography and poetry, while challenging "realistic" approaches to the Nazi terror.  His elegies for Jewish culture and his meditations on the guilt of Jews who passed through the Nazi period physically<B> </B>unscathed are among the most moving and provocative works in the literature of the <I><B>Shoah</B></I><I><B>.</B></I></div> <bR> <div>     Klein's writings from 1933-1950.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>