Hostname: page-component-7f64f4797f-9t7q9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-11-09T01:05:32.674Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Anna Herman and the Goldberg Variations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Adriana X. Jacobs
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The capacious first issue of ho! (), a prominent Israeli literary journal that debuted in 2005, included a seven-page questionnaire titled “Goldberg Variations” (), a pun on Bach's Goldberg Variations, a composition for the harpsichord. The purpose of the questionnaire was—and still is, if you choose to do it—to answer the question “Are you Leah Goldberg?” (), Goldberg being one of the major Hebrew poets of the twentieth century. The short epigraph that followed this question was two lines from the opening poem of her debut collection Smoke Rings (1935; ):

Information

Type
Theories and Methodologies
Information
PMLA , Volume 132 , Issue 2 , March 2017 , pp. 421 - 426
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2017

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Works Cited

Andersen, Hans Christian. “Snedronningen” [The Snow Queen]. The Hans Christian Andersen Centre, www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/register/info_e.html?vid=68.Google Scholar
Andrade, Oswald de. “Manifesto antropófago” [Cannibal Manifesto]. Revista de antropofagia, vol. 1, no. 1, May 1928, pp. 3, 7.Google Scholar
Galvin, Rachel. “Poetry Is heft.” Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, 2014, pp. 18–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Goldberg, Leah. [Barak ba-boker; Lightning in the Morning]. Sifriat po'alim, 1955.Google Scholar
Goldberg, Leah. [Eiropah shelakhem; Your Europe]. Mishmar, 30 Apr. 1945, p. 6.Google Scholar
Goldberg, Leah. [Pitsei ohev; The Lover's Wounds]. Goldberg, Barak, pp. 72–76.Google Scholar
Goldberg, Leah. [Taba'ot 'ashan; Smoke Rings]. Yachdav, 1935.Google Scholar
Herman, Anna. [Pitsei ohev; The Lover's Wounds]. [Sefer ha-refuot ha-peshutot; The Book of Simple Remedies], Ha-kibbuts ha-meuchad, 2006, pp. 14–27.Google Scholar
Herman, Anna. [Yod-daleth sonetot bikavot Leah Goldberg; Fourteen Sonnets after Leah Goldberg]. Ho!, vol. 1, 2005, pp. 124–30.Google Scholar
Launet, Edouard, and Lindon, Mathieu. “Êtes-vous Victor Hugo?” [Are You Victor Hugo?]. Libération, 3 Jan. 2002, next.liberation.fr/livres/2002/01/31/etes-vous-victor-hugo_392260.Google Scholar
Manor, Dory. [Al Ho!; Ho! Manifesto]. Ho!, vol. 1, 2005, pp. 9–16.Google Scholar
Raab, Esther. [Milim ke-tsiporim nedirot; Words like Rare Birds]. [Kol haprozah; The Collected Prose], edited by Ehud BenEzer, Astrolog, 2001, pp. 414–20.Google Scholar
Tsvetaeva, Marina. “A Kiss on the Head.” Translated by Elaine Feinstein. Selected Poems, Penguin Books, 1994, p. 33.Google Scholar
Wallach, Yona. [Sham yesh; There There Are]. [Tat hakara niftachat kmo menifah; The Subconscious Opens like a Fan], Ha-kibbuts ha-meuchad, 1992, p. 107.Google Scholar