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Claude Vigée

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Claude Vigée · Arts & Literature

What

Poet / lyricist

When

1921, Bischwiller, France — 2020, Paris, France

Where

France · United States · Israel

Biography

Claude Vigée is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Poet / lyricist

How & why

Claude Vigée was a French poet and essayist from Alsace whose work wove together French and Hebrew traditions, exile, and Jewish memory across a long life spent in France, the United States, and Israel. He taught comparative literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Vigée was Jewish, born André Strauss to an Alsatian Jewish family, and Jewish identity and the Bible were central to his writing.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists

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Poet / lyricist

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists