Dan pagis poems

Israeli poet and lecturer

Dan Pagis (October 16, 1930 – June 29, 1986) was an Israeli poet, lecturer and Holocaust survivor.^[1][2]

Biography

Dan Pagis was born in Rădăuţi, Bukovina in Romania and imprisoned as a child in a concentration camp in Ukraine.

He escaped in 1944 and immigrated to British Palestine (soon-to-be Israel) in 1946.

Pagis earned his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he later taught Medieval Hebrew literature.^[3] His first published book of poetry was Sheon ha-Tsel ("The Shadow Clock") in 1959.

In 1970 he published a major work entitled Gilgul – which may be translated as "Revolution, cycle, transformation, metamorphosis, metempsychosis," etc. Other poems include: "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car," "Testimony, "Europe, Late," "Autobiography," and "Draft of a Reparations Agreement." Pagis knew many languages, and translated multiple works of literature.^{[citation needed}