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LICHT IM LAGER Gedichte aus dem Lande Jisrael [= Light in the Camp : Poems from the Land of Israel]
Published by Dr. Max Praeger Verlag, Wien, Vienna and Leipzig, 1930
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In German. 124. (4) pages. Very slight foxing. 231 x 152 mm. Front free endpaper has her inscription in German "Meiner Lieben Sarale", [To my dear Sarale]and her signature in Hebrew, simply as "Miriam". Miriam was an Israeli writer, poet, journalist, translator German language and kibbutz kindergarten teacher. Irma Singer grew up in a Czech-speaking Jewish family in Prague and attended German schools. She participated in the cultural life of the circles and associations of German-speaking Jews in Prague and was a member of the Jewish Hiking Association Blau-Weiss. During the First World War, she, together with Franz Kafka and Felix Weltsch, took private lessons in Hebrew with Ji?? Langer, a relative of Max Brod. When she returned to Prague with Jakob Berkowski after her emigration in 1920, Kafka gave her the book A Country Doctor with the dedication: You are far too healthy, Irma, to understand this. During the First World War she worked in Prague in a shelter for Eastern Jewish refugee children, who had been brought to safety from Galicia in western Austria-Hungary because of the war. With the Hugo Bergman family she emigrated to Palestine in 1920 and was one of the first immigrants and pioneers of the kibbutz movement. She lived the first half year with Bergman in Jerusalem and was a worker in kibbutz Degania Alef in the Sea of Galilee, later she was a kindergarten teacher there. She married Jakob Berkowski and lived for seventy years in this kibbutz, they had two sons. In the "model kibbutz" some of the visitors were Aharon David Gordon, Albert Einstein, Lord Balfour, Max Warburg and Tomas Masaryk. The poet Rachel lived there for a time. She wrote articles, published in Europe, about the kibbutz. She published a book of poetry in Austria and wrote two children's books on the subjects of emigration and kibbutz life. Signed by Author(s).
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