Creator Bio
Olga Kirsch
1924–1997
Poet Olga Kirsch was born in the town of Koppies in the Orange Free State of South Africa. While a student at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Kirsch made a conscious political decision to write in Afrikaans rather than English, and she is the only Jewish writer of note to have done so. In 1948, she settled in Israel, where she taught English but continued to publish primarily in Afrikaans.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Nostalgia
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget itself.Give us the land we have wandered in timeThrough foreign parts, far, so far and then,Every year at Passover we repeat the lineNext year…