Paul Celan was a Romanianborn German language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernui , in the then Kingdom of Romania , and adopted the pseudonym Paul Celan. . He became one of the major Germanlanguage poets of the postWorld War II era.
Celan was born into a Germanspeaking Jewish family in Cernui, Northern Bukovina, a region then part of Romania and earlier part of the AustroHungarian Empire . His first home was in the Wassilkogasse in Cernui. His father, Leo Antschel, was a Zionist who advocated his sons education in Hebrew at the Jewish school Safah Ivriah.
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