9781928755036 - Looking Back, Going Forward: New and Selected Poems de Taube, Herman (13 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine to Fine. 160 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is Free of markings. Inscribed By Author on title page. Inscribed by Author(s).

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Condición: Very Good. Signed Copy . Signed/Inscribed by author on half title page.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. 1st. pictorial glossy wraps; 160 clean, unmarked pages. Signed & Inscribed By Author.

Paperback. Condición: Fine condition. NOT a library discard Ilustrador. Takoma Park, Maryland: Dryad Press, 2002. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the title page. SIGNED copies are SCARCE. Fine condition but for one page with dogear. Pages are otherwise fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Flat, uncreased spine. NO chips, tears or fading. Bright and shiny. Sharp corners. Square and tight. Bound in the original pictorial wraps. From the publisher: "The work of poet and novelist Herman Taube reveals the inner world of a tormented yet loving soul, a world of deep richness and passion. Looking Back, Going Forward includes recent English translations of poems Taube originally wrote in Polish and Yiddish about his World War II experiences in Poland, Siberia, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Pomerania. It also includes poems dealing with emigration to the United States in 1947, his continuing work as a journalist, and a life that has been dedicated to service in Jewish communities and his expanding family.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Softcover. Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xv, 160pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed).

Hardcover. Awret, Azriel (Drawings) Ilustrador. Presumed first edition/first printing. xv, [1], 160 p. Illustrations. Title Index. Glossary. Herman Taube, a novelist, poet and longtime Washington correspondent for the Forverts, After the war Taube married Susan Struass, a Holocaust survivor who had survived the Riga ghetto and Kaiserwald concentration camp. Taube began writing for the Forverts almost as soon as he arrived. He continued to serve as the newspaper s Washington and Baltimore correspondent for nearly 60 years, covering everything from the White House to the founding of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In addition to journalism, Taube wrote more than 20 books of fiction and poetry. His work often depicted his wartime experiences and life as an immigrant to the United States. In his eulogy Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt said: "Herman was a witness to a vanished world; a window to a world that was vanquished and is no more. With anger, but not malice, his writings took us back and recreated and brought to life those whose lives were taken so cruelly, and the way of life that was destroyed." Good. Signed by author. Inscribed on fep. Front board slightly bowed at front edge.

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Trade paperback. Condición: Very good. Azriel Awret (Drawings) and Yitzhak Ginzburg (Self Ilustrador. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xvi, 160 pages. Title Index. Glossary. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. The inscription reads "For Carol Banks With all good wishes Herman Taube 10/11/11". Herman Taube was born in Lodz, Poland in 1918. Herman began nursing in 1937. Herman was called for duty as a medic in the Polish Army in August 1939. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, thus marking the start of WWII. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the Blitzkrieg. The Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland according to the German-Soviet Pact on September 17, 1939. Herman was captured by the Soviet forces. Lower ranking soldiers were sent to Siberia, a harsh area of the Soviet Union where Soviet work camps were located. Based on an agreement between the Soviet government and the Polish government in exile, all Polish citizens held in Soviet camps were to be released. Upon his release, Herman went to Uzbekistan to join the Second Polish Army. He worked as a medic in Uzbekistan. In June 1944 Herman was injured. After recuperating Herman was sent to the headquarters of the Second Polish Army, stationed in Lublin, the former Lublin/Majdanek concentration camp. Herman worked in the Majdanek hospital, caring for the liberated prisoners. Shortly thereafter Herman was sent to work in a hospital in Pomerania where he worked until the end of the war. After the war Herman married Susan Strauss, a fellow survivor. The two immigrated to the United States in 1947. Herman is the author of more than twenty novels and books of poetry and has worked as a writer and journalist for over 60 years. The work of poet and novelist Herman Taube reveals the inner world of a tormented yet loving soul, a world of deep richness and passion. Looking Back, Going Forward includes recent English translations of poems Taube originally wrote in Polish and Yiddish about his World War II experiences in Poland, Siberia, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Pomerania. It also includes poems dealing with emigration to the United States in 1947, his continuing work as a journalist, and a life that has been dedicated to service in Jewish communities and his expanding family. Among the topics of some poems are Siberia, Liberation, Refugee, Clinic, Pesach, Gulag, Punishment, Karaganda, Barbarians, Irkutsk, Lake Baykal, Exiles, Suicide, Loneliness, Tyumen, Freedom Fighter, Homeless, Ferghana Canal, Faith, Samarkand, Shoemaker, Kursk, Boronezh, Partisans, Prisoners of War, Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Adam Mickiewisz, Arthur Szyk, Friendship, Cholesterol, Sanctuary, Grasshoppers, and Antithesis.