Tamar Bergman

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Tamar Bergman (born January 29, 1939 in Tel Aviv , Palestine (League of Nations mandate) ; died 2016 ) was an Israeli author.

life and work

Tamar Bergman was born in Tel Aviv in 1939. She lost her father, a member of the Palmach , at an early age and spent part of her childhood in a kibbutz before the family moved to Jerusalem . She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and French from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . She then received a scholarship to the Sorbonne in Paris, where she studied modern French literature.

After returning to Israel, she wrote numerous books for children and young people as well as radio manuscripts for children's programs. She first wrote books for younger children; with her own children, the addressees of her books grew, and from the 1990s she began writing books for adults.

Important works

The book for young people Ha-Yeled Mi- "Shama" (German: The Boy from Over there ) appeared in translations in English, German, Japanese, Italian, Serbian and Chinese in addition to Hebrew . The Hebrew word sham (“there”) in the expression mischama (“from there” or “from over there”) in the book's title means “there, where it happened”, a synonym for Europe as the place of the Shoah . The main character is a boy named Avram (also called Avramik or Avremele), who, together with his sick mother , had to hide from the German occupiers in a village in Europe during the Second World War . After the Allied liberation, his mother was taken to hospital; although she never returns, Avram cannot accept that she is dead. The book begins with Avram being taken to a kibbutz in the Mandate Palestine by his uncle . Despite the children's willingness to take him into their midst, he remains frightened. He, the boy from over there , can only slowly integrate into kibbutz life. He stubbornly hides his secret, which is his belief that his mother will return. The only person with whom he develops a relationship of trust is Rina, who - like Avram - cannot accept that her father was killed as a member of the Jewish Brigade in Italy. When the kibbutz came under fire after the outbreak of the Palestinian War in 1948, all children had to be evacuated and Avram's fear broke out again. In the moment of danger, however, he can overcome it. At the end of the book, Avram finds an answer to the question that haunted him for a long time. - After Tamar Bergman had written the book relatively quickly, she began to doubt whether she had read the story anywhere before and whether it was therefore plagiarism . Only the unexpected visit of her cousin, the only survivor of her uncle's large family, brought her memory back. She realized that the book was based in part on stories she had made up as a child during her stay in the kibbutz.

The children's picture book Where is? was illustrated by Rutu Modan .

Tamar Bergman described her father's biography as her best book; in the book title he's the captain who didn't return . However, the translation from Hebrew was refused because the book would be too locally arrested.

Following on from her book The Boy from Over there , Bergman wrote a one-person play that was performed in the children's museum of the House of Ghetto Fighters Museum in Kibbutz Lochamej haGeta'ot in 2014 and that is intended to convey the cultural gap between arriving young Holocaust children to children of today. Survivors and their local peers.

Works in German translation

  • The boy over there . From the Heb. by Kirsten Praefcke-Meron, Alibaba Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1991. As a paperback with a new title: The children from the Jordan valley . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1994
  • Tashkent is far from Lodz . From the Heb. by Mirjam Pressler , Alibaba Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992. As paperback: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996

Awards

  • 1984: Berenstein Prize for Der Junge von Drüben as the best children's book of the year
  • 1989: Ze'ev Prize for children's and young people's books
  • Award "Best Israeli Children's Book" from the Center for Children's and Youth Literature at the University of Haifa for The Boy from Over there
  • 2000: Ze'ev Prize for children's and young people's books

literature

  • Tamar Bergman , in: Mirjam Morad (Hrsg.): Encounter with children's and youth literature from Israel . Catalog for the event week and exhibition. (ZIRKULAR special number 39, June 1994), documentation center for newer Austrian literature in the Literaturhaus , Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-900467-39-0 , pp. 53-55

Web links

  • Tamar Bergman at ITHL (Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Robert Schlickewitz: Tamar Bergmann on HaGalil
  2. ↑ a b Encounter with children's and youth literature from Israel , 1994, p. 55
  3. ↑ a b c Encounter with children's and youth literature from Israel , 1994, p. 53
  4. ↑ The Boy from Over There
  5. ↑ Barry Davis: Never too young to remember. Jerusalem Post , April 28, 2014, accessed November 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bergman, Tamar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miner, Tamar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv , Palestine (League of Nations Mandate)
DATE OF DEATH 2016