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Ida Fink
Ida Fink ( he, אידה פינק, 1 November 1921 – 27 September 2011) was a Polish-born Israeli author who wrote about the Holocaust in Polish. Biography Ida Fink was born as Ida Landau in Zbaraż, Poland (now Zbarazh, Ukraine) on 1 November 1921 to a Polish-Jewish family. Her father, Ludwig Landau, was a physician and her mother, Fannie Landau, worked as a teacher in a local school. She was a student of music at the Lwów Conservatory, but her studies were halted by the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Landau and her family spent 1941–1942 in the Zbaraż ghetto, before escaping, along with her sister, with the help of Aryan papers. During those two years her mother also died of cancer. After the Holocaust, Landau married Bruno Fink and had a daughter, Miri Fink. In 1957, Fink and her family immigrated to Israel. They settled in Holon, where she worked as a music librarian and an interviewer for Yad Vashem. In 1958, she began publishing short stories in Polish-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida Fink (1985)
Ida Fink ( he, אידה פינק, 1 November 1921 – 27 September 2011) was a Polish-born Israeli author who wrote about the Holocaust in Polish. Biography Ida Fink was born as Ida Landau in Zbaraż, Poland (now Zbarazh, Ukraine) on 1 November 1921 to a Polish-Jewish family. Her father, Ludwig Landau, was a physician and her mother, Fannie Landau, worked as a teacher in a local school. She was a student of music at the Lwów Conservatory, but her studies were halted by the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Landau and her family spent 1941–1942 in the Zbaraż ghetto, before escaping, along with her sister, with the help of Aryan papers. During those two years her mother also died of cancer. After the Holocaust, Landau married Bruno Fink and had a daughter, Miri Fink. In 1957, Fink and her family immigrated to Israel. They settled in Holon, where she worked as a music librarian and an interviewer for Yad Vashem. In 1958, she began publishing short stories in Polis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
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Israeli People Of Polish-Jewish Descent
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Polish Emigrants To Israel
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2011 Deaths
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1921 Births
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List Of Israel Prize Recipients
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A Scrap Of Time And Other Stories
''A Scrap of Time and Other Stories'', written by Ida Fink, is a collection of fictional short stories relating various characters to the Jewish experience of the Holocaust. Originally written in Polish, it was translated by Madeline Levine and Francine Prose. The novel won the first Anne Frank Prize, as well as the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. Published in 1987, this collection of stories illustrates the continuing effect of the Holocaust on the Jewish psyche. List of stories Short stories in the collection: Reception In her review of the book for ''The New York Times'', Johanna Kaplan wrote that "nearly all the stories in this idiomatically translated book arise from a premise or a situation that is compelling and, briefly, chillingly alive with fictional possibility". She says that the book "raises poignant, truculent ghosts, and their bewildered echoing voices - arguing, dreaming, accusing, lamenting, remembering and refusing to remember - allow us poweful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapir Prize
The Sapir Prize for Literature of Israel is a prestigious annual literary award presented for a work of literature in the Hebrew language. The prize is awarded by Mifal HaPayis (Israel's state lottery), and is a part of the organization's cultural initiatives. It bears the name of the late Pinhas Sapir, a former Finance Minister of Israel, and was first awarded in 2000. Prize money The Sapir Prize, based on the British Man Booker Prize, is the most lucrative literary prize awarded in Israel. Of five shortlisted titles, the winning author receives 150,000 NIS (roughly 39,000 USD), and the four runners-up each receive 40,000 NIS. For the year 2019, a new award will be granted for a debut work. Up to three candidates will receive a prize of 20,000 NIS, with the winner receiving 40,000 NIS. Prize rules The group of judges for the prize is composed of prominent literary figures, whose names are kept confidential until the prize winner is named. Some of these judges are replaced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Frank Prize
The Anne Frank Prize was a literary award that was given out in the Netherlands in the years 1957 to 1966 by The Netherlands-America Foundation. The prize was established by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, who had authored a play, ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', based on Anne Frank's ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' (''Het achterhuis''). The play won the Pulitzer prize in 1956. The prize money was to be given to writers under 30 years. The prize was awarded in successive years in the following genres: novel, poetry, drama, essay and short story. Notable winners include Harry Mulisch and Cees Nooteboom. Prize winners * 1966 – Raoul Chapkis: ''Ik sta op mijn hoofd'' ::- Henk van Kerkwijk: ''Geweer met terugslag'' * 1965 – P.J.A.M. Buijnsters: ''Tussen twee werelden-Rhijnvis Feith als dichter van Het Graf'' ::- Cornelis Verhoeven: ''Filosofie van de troost'' * 1964 – E. Brent Besemer: (entire ''oeuvre'') ::- Peter Oosthoek: for his direction of the play ''Nederlandse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Prize
The Israel Prize ( he, פרס ישראל; ''pras israél'') is an award bestowed by the State of Israel, and regarded as the state's highest cultural honor. History The Israel Prize is awarded annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Knesset (Israel's legislature), and the Supreme Court President. The prize was established in 1953 at the initiative of the Minister of Education Ben-Zion Dinor, who himself went on to win the prize in 1958 and 1973. Awarding the prize The prize is awarded in the following four areas, with the precise subfields changing from year to year in a cycle of 4 to 7 years, except for the last area, which is awarded annually: * the humanities, social sciences, and Jewish studies * life and exact sciences * culture, arts, communication and sports * lifetime achievement and exceptional contribution to the nation (since 1972) The recipients of the priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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