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Series 9: Gerschon Ben-David

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Kulka, Otto Dov
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Series Record
Reference Code
ARC. 4* 2024 09
Dates
1948-1996
Languages
German; Hebrew; English;
Description
The series includes manuscripts, personal documents and correspondence from Gerschon Ben-David's estate, as well as documents related to his commemoration. The poet Gerschon Ben-David (Georg Levkovitz, 1930-1975) was born to a Jewish-Polish mother and grew up in Cologne, in the home of a non-Jewish family. Although this allowed him to escape the fate of most European Jews during WWII, as the war ended he joined the survivors in the DP camps and in 1947 immigrated illegally to Palestine. He spent most of his adult life in Israel, and wrote and published his poetry in German. His first book of poetry (In den Wind werfen. Versuche um Metabarbarisches) was published posthumously in a bilingual (German and Hebrew) edition. The book was edited by his close friend Otto Dov Kulka, who also kept his literary estate and donated it to the NLI as part of his own estate.
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  • The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel
Title Series 9: Gerschon Ben-David.
Host Item Otto Dov Kulka Archive
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Credits With Assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Supported by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future and by the German Federal Ministry of Finance. בסיוע ועידת התביעות בחסות הקרן זכרון, אחריות ועתיד ובתמיכת משרד האוצר הפדרלי הגרמני.
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