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In honor of Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel -\\nhost Marcela Sulak reads poetry by Paul Celan, including his famous\\n"Death Fugue":

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"Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night
\\nwe drink you at morning and midday we drink you at evening
\\nwe drink and we drink
\\nA man lives in the house he plays with his vipers he writes
\\nhe writes when it grows dark to Deutschland your golden hair\\nMargareta
\\nYour ashen hair Shulamith we shovel a grave in the air there you\\nwon\'t lie too cramped"

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Paul Celan was born Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in\\nCzernowitcz in 1920. The death of his parents in the Holocaust, and\\nhis imprisonment in a Romanian work camp are the defining forces in\\nhis\\xa0poetry and use of language. Celan wrote in German.\\nAccording to Pierre Joris, who translated Celan\\u2019s later poetry,\\nhe\\xa0"harbored feelings of intense estrangement from the\\nlanguage and thus set about creating his own language through a\\n\\u201cdismantling and rewelding\\u201d of German."

Texts:
\\nSelected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan. Translated by John\\nFelstiner. W.W. Norton & Co. 2001
\\nPoems of Paul Celan. Translated by Michael Hamburger.\\nPersea Press, 1995.

Music:
\\nFelix Mendelssohn - Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, op.35\\nno.1
\\nFelix Mendelssohn - Songs Without Words, op.19 no.6 in G\\nMinor
\\nFelix Mendelssohn - Songs Without Words, op.30 no.6 in F Sharp\\nMinor