Re: [Cz-L] Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

            Dear Marion,
        Glad to hear that you are working on a biography of Selma M-E.
       In 1977, while I had an academic assignment in Heidelberg,
Germany, the volume of Selma's poems
      published under private sponsorship in Israel was sent to me by
Hersh Segal, a friend of mine and Selma's teacher.
      During my stay in Heidelberg, Hilde Domin and I became friends.
I let her have a copy of the manual in
      order to make these poems widely known. She in turn contacted
Jürgen Serke and the story appeared in the May 8
      1980 issue of the magazine STERN.

              Best Wishes for 2013 for you and the CZ-L List
                                 Bianca

On Jan 2, 2013, at 11:51 PM, Marion Tauschwitz wrote:

>
> Dear friends of Czernowitz,
>
>
> Edgar Hauster encouraged me to subscribe to Czernowitz-L.
> I am a German writer and live in Heidelberg, Germany.
> After a biography on the jewish poet Hilde Domin, two novels and
> one more book on Domin, I am working on the biography of Selma
> Meerbaum-Eisinger that is due to be published in 2014.I have read
> and read books on Czernowitz and reports of witnesses. All pieces
> of information will be put together to give a picture of Selma's
> life and the life in Czernowitz at that time.
> It was Hilde Domin who brought Selma's poems to Germany in 1979.
> They had been handed over to her by Irene or Helene Silverblatt she
> must have met in the States. After Hilde Domin had returned to
> Germany she made a lot of efforts to find an editor for Selma's
> poems and finally convinced Jürgen Serke (journalist of the "Stern"
> magazine) to follow the terrific way the poems had taken before
> they reached Israel.
> The Czernowitz-L web site is a fountain of inspiration and
> information, a wonderful gift.
>
> I would be more than pleased if somebody could contribute any
> details on Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger: She was born in "Rapfgasse 6",
> later Str. Georghe Popovici. Enlisted in Rapfgasse 6 in the
> official register is a "Chaim Meerbaum" who used to live in
> Steingasse before, next to comerciant "Eisinger" - Leo Eisinger was
> to become Selma's stepfather after her father Max Meerbaum had
> passed away . Does anybody know anything about the relationship
> between "Chaim Meerbaum" and "Max Meerbaum", Selmas father? He came
> from Berlin to Czernowitz to open a business, that is what we had
> been told by his brother. So I think that Chaim must have been a
> close relative, maybe even his father, Selmas grandfather. Because
> the register tells me that Chaim improved from "Tagelöhner" to
> "comerciant" and lived in Rapfgasse until 1936.
> Selmas mother, born Frieda Schrager, ran a small shop - a so called
> "Geißlerei" - in this very Rapfgasse. But I wonder if "Chaim
> Meerbaum" was there before her? Details I am interested in because
> they might help to understand the way Max Meerbaum and Frieda
> Schrager, Selma's mother, got together.
> Maybe there exist even some photos of Rapfgasse in the 1920/30ies?
> So far at the moment - any detail might be helpful and I thank you
> for having taken the time to read.
>
> Kindest regards,
> Marion Tauschwitz
>

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