Miriam Magall

Miriam Magall , maiden name Keren Kowalski , (born December 7, 1942 in Treuburg ; died August 17, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German- Israeli writer, translator and publicist who wrote in German and lived in Germany. The subjects of her works ranged from Jewish religion and Jewish cuisine to the art and history of Judaism.

Life

Magall grew up as a "hidden child" near Goslar and spent the first three years of his life in a cellar. Her mother Zelda Kowalski, nee Nussboim, died shortly after she was born, her father, the doctor Gabriel Kowalski, was murdered by the Nazis a few days after Magall's birth. Miriam Magall grew up with her parents' former maid. It was only when Miriam Magall was 18 years old that she admitted that she was not her birth child. The relationship between the two women remained bad. Miriam Magall also had to rediscover her Judaism. She described herself as "modern-orthodox".

She studied translation and interpreting in Heidelberg , Saarbrücken and Tel Aviv . Magall then worked as a conference interpreter in Israel , the European Union and other institutions, as well as a translator (from English, French, Hebrew, Yiddish and Spanish into German and English).

Magall lived in Tel-Aviv until 1988, then in Heidelberg and Munich, and since 2010 in Berlin. Until 2001 she was a member of the board of the Jewish community in Heidelberg.

1994–2002 he studied at the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg and at the University of Heidelberg (German, art history), with a dissertation in 2002.

When her hearing deteriorated in recent years, she gave up her job as a conference interpreter. Since then she has mainly appeared in public with her own publications.

Works (selection)

• Little history of Jewish art , Cologne 1984 (new edition Wiesbaden 2005) ISBN 3-86539-019-6
• Archeology and bible. Scientific paths to the world of the Old Testament , Cologne 1985 ISBN 3-7701-1644-5
• A tour through Jewish Heidelberg with Miriam Magall , Heidelberg 2006 ISBN 3-8253-5173-4
• Rachel Kochawi (pseudonym): The Blood Bride. A political love story , Lich / Hessen 2008 (novel) ISBN 978-3-936049-89-3
• Why Adam didn't get an apple. Basic questions of Judaism , Stuttgart 2008 ISBN 978-3-7668-4037-0
• How good are your tents, Jakob! Walks in Jewish Munich , Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-937090-29-0
• Rachel Kochawi (pseudonym): Nakajima , Lich / Hessen, 2009 (short story) ISBN 978-3-86841-007-5
• Rachel Kochawi (pseudonym): The bread of poverty. The story of a hidden Jewish child , Lich / Hessen, 2010 ISBN 978-3-86841-034-1
• It wasn't until I was 18 that I found out about my second hidden life . In: Tina Hüttl; Alexander Meschnig (Ed.): You won't get us: hidden as children - Jewish survivors tell stories . Munich: Piper, 2013 ISBN 978-3-492-05521-5 , pp. 140–156. Short biography on page 156.
• Jerusalem. Holy Places of the Jews , Paderborn 2010, 2nd edition 2012 ISBN 978-3-8467-5039-1
• International Jewish Feasts - Eating Like In Paradise: Vol. 1 - Pessach , Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-941021-16-7
• International Jewish Feasts - Eating Like In Paradise Vol. 2 - The High Holidays , Berlin 2015 ISBN 978-3-941021-22-8
• International Jewish Feasts - Eating Like in Paradise Vol. 3 - Shabbath and more , Berlin 2015 ISBN 978-3-941021-27-3
• On the Obasute-Yama. Or: don't discard me at my age! Lich / Hessen 2014 (novel) ISBN 978-3-86841-097-6
• Again: Against Apion. The new cultural anti-Semitism from the middle of society , Hessen / Lich 2015 ISBN 978-3-86841-110-2
• kosher & kosher style. Shopping / Eating / Catering in Berlin , Peine 2015 ISBN 978-3-7752-1791-0 (German edition), ISBN 978-3-7752-1790-3 (English edition)

Web links

• Literature by and about Miriam Magall in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Miriam Magall in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Retirement was yesterday. The writer and publicist Miriam Magall celebrates her 70th birthday (Jüdische Allgemeine December 13, 2012) [1]
• Miriam Magall - I tell simply and brutally (Jüdische Allgemeine July 9, 2009) [2]
• Angelika Calmez: Second World War: "Child Survivors": Life after survival , contribution in the series From the Jewish World on January 30, 2015 in Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philipp Peyman Engel: Obituary: Language was their home | Jewish general. Retrieved August 27, 2017 . 
2. ^ Gabriel Kowalski in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
3. ↑ Rachel Kochawi (pseudonym for Magall): The bread of poverty. The story of a hidden Jewish child , Lich / Hessen, 2010
4. ↑ The author Magall appears as a translator for several fiction works published under a pseudonym. The source for the identity is their own website.