Title: The Zohar as Poetic Inspiration: Nelly Sachs’s Reading of Gershom Scholem
Abstract: This essay deals with the influence of Gershom Scholem's translations on Nelly Sachs's poetry. Scholem's translation of the Zohar was especially important for Sachs's understanding of Jewish mysticism, and she refers to it both implicitly and explicitly in interviews and in her poetry. It is her encounter with Scholem's work that propelled her poetry in a new and bold direction during the 1950s. Furthermore, this essay attempts to trace Sachs's reading of Scholem in light of the influence on Scholem of German Romantic poetry.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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