Harvest of blossoms: poems from a life cut short
Title
Harvest of blossoms: poems from a life cut short
Creator
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
Contributor
Irene Silverblatt
Helene Silverblatt
Helene Silverblatt
Description
From the editor's introduction:
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger died in a Nazi SS labor camp on December 17, 1942. She was eighteen. In the course of a life cut short, Selma reached out to the world with poetry,and her words grabbed life, even as the world around her was slipping into an arena of death. During these grim times, she wrote more than fifty poems in German and translated another five from Yiddish, French, and Romanian. With startling honesty, she wrote about love and heartbreak, desire and loss, injustice and marred hope. Selma found beauty in the fragility of chestnuts, comfort in the loneliness of rain, and grief in rural poverty and, with despairing courage, faced a future that wanted her - and an entire way of being - to "fade like smoke and leave no trace" ("Tragedy").
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger died in a Nazi SS labor camp on December 17, 1942. She was eighteen. In the course of a life cut short, Selma reached out to the world with poetry,and her words grabbed life, even as the world around her was slipping into an arena of death. During these grim times, she wrote more than fifty poems in German and translated another five from Yiddish, French, and Romanian. With startling honesty, she wrote about love and heartbreak, desire and loss, injustice and marred hope. Selma found beauty in the fragility of chestnuts, comfort in the loneliness of rain, and grief in rural poverty and, with despairing courage, faced a future that wanted her - and an entire way of being - to "fade like smoke and leave no trace" ("Tragedy").
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Rights
Copyright 2008
Language
English
Format
Book
Type
text
Identifier
ISBN: 9780810125377
UPC:
SKU: 2021Wri15
CALL#:
UPC:
SKU: 2021Wri15
CALL#:
Subject
World War, 1939-1945.
Children's poetry, Romanian.
Children's writings.
Children's poetry, Romanian.
Children's writings.
Source
Ich bin in Sehnsucht eingehullt, copyright 1980
Date
1939-1941
Files
Collection
Citation
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, “Harvest of blossoms: poems from a life cut short,” The Children's Collection, accessed October 27, 2025, https://catalog.thechildrenscollection.org/items/show/15.