OF CONSCIENCE AND COURAGE: REMEMBERING THE POET HILDE DOMIN

Explorations of the writings and life of poet Hilde Domin

Online and in Person:

Brandeis University

Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library

Join translators Sarah Kafatou and Mark S. Burrows and singer-songwriter Deborah Langstaff for an exploration of the writings and life of the poet Hilde Domin (1909 - 2006). Hilde Domin fled Nazi Germany when, as a Jew, she was no longer safe there. Returning permanently to Germany in the mid-1950's, she quickly found recognition as a poet of memory and reconciliation. For the rest of her long life she wrote and spoke in a tone poised between vulnerability and trust, on behalf of moral and civic values worth living for. Domin wrote of "people like us we among them", providing a voice for victims of persecution everywhere. Her exquisitely lyrical poems of conscience, and of courage discovered in desperation, speak very directly to every reader.

In 2023, Mark Burrows and Sarah Kafatou each independently published a selection of Hilde Domin's poems, The Wandering Radiance and With My Shadow. They will present and discuss Domin's witness as a writer, joined by Deborah Langstaff who will perform her original settings of several of the poems.

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