Poetry. I was moved, deeply moved by David Jaffin's collections of verse, by their sensitivity, their loveliness, their honesty.--Chaim Potok
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: David Jaffin
EAN: 9781848612075
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 445 g
HEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Shearsman Books
DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-01-15
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GENRE: POETRY / American / General
WIDTH: 148 cm
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Poetry by individual poets
Dr. David Jaffin was born to a Jewish family in New York and studied History, Art History and Psychology at New York University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. At the age of 24 he went to Europe and did the unthinkable: a mere 16 years after Auschwitz he married a German woman, became a Christian, and embarked on the study of theology. After graduating from Tuebingen University, he became a Pastor in the Evangelical (i.e. Lutheran) Church, and then served as a minister for 20 years in Württemberg. After this he was granted freelance status in order to continue with his writing. He had already made himself a considerable reputation as a writer of sermons and religious texts, and he is now the author of dozens of prose books in German, including stories for children, as well as a large corpus of poetry in English.
