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Partners in piracy.
August 10, 2026
Paul Celan Never Wanted His Poetry to Cheapen the Holocaust
He remained attuned to “the pervasive, and rekindled, anti-Semitism in postwar France and Germany.”
Born in 1920 in Romania (in a city now in Ukraine), writing poetry only in German (despite never visiting Germany until 1952), and living most of his adult life in France, Paul Celan was very much a man of the early 20th century. Celan, a Jew whose father was a Zionist and Hebrew-language enthusiast, spent World War II in a forced-labor camp, while his parents were murdered by Romanian forces. Piotr Florczyk reviews a new biography of the poet by Anna Arno:
August 10, 2026
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We ignore them at our peril.
Paul Celan Never Wanted His Poetry to Cheapen the Holocaust
He remained attuned to “the pervasive, and rekindled, anti-Semitism in postwar France and Germany.”