The Wanderer's Journal
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Reflections
Bilingual Poems for Pensive People
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As the poems weave between the mundane and the abstract, the reader joins with the author in reflecting upon the human condition – and though the prognosis may be dire, we are never allowed to lose spirit. Yet as the author concludes: "One of the few good reasons to want to go on existing is the curiosity, the pure curiosity to learn how all this will end: with a bang or with a whimper."
Haim Schneiderwas born in Vienna in 1921, where he also received his basic schooling. In the wake of The Anschlub in 1938 he and his younger brother left Vienna at the eleventh hour. Haim left with the Youth Aliyah to what was then Palestine, and his brother with the Kindertransport to England. Their parents did not survive the Holocaust. Haim served five years in the British Army. He has lived in Jerusalem since 1946, where for over thirty years he worked in an apprentice school for precision mechanics.
As to his literary activities in Haim's own words: Now and then I sit down to write some poems, not out of an irresistible urge to express myself, but out of the pure joy of playing with words and forming word sequences that make sense as well as music.
- ISBN-13
- 9789652295194
- Publisher
- Gefen Publishing House
- Imprint
- Gefen Publishing House
- Publication date
- 10 November 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 112
- Dimensions
- 216 x 145 mm
- Language
- English
