Debora Vogel

Debora Vogel ( * 1902 Bursztyn in Lviv; † August 1942 ibid ) was a Polish philosopher and poet.

Life

Debora Vogel comes from a Jewish family of intellectuals from Bursztyn in Galicia. During the First World War, the family lived in Vienna, after which they settled in Lviv. Vogel graduated from the Polish Gymnasium in Lviv and worked as a teacher in an orphanage. From 1919 she studied philosophy and psychology at the University Lvov, from 1924 at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where she graduated in 1926 with a thesis on Hegel. She then worked in Lviv as a lecturer in psychology.

Bird wrote in Polish and Yiddish and often translated their texts also into Polish. She was friend and " muse " of the Polish- Jewish writer Bruno Schulz and author of the books Tog figurn (1930) and Manekinen (1934 ), Akazies Blien ( flowering acacias, 1935). She was enthusiastic about constructivism in the painting and for modernity in literature and was a member of the Polish avant-garde circle around SI Witkiewicz and Władysław Strzemiński ( 1893-1952 ).

In August 1942 she was with her husband, the architect Szulim Barenblüth, and her six year old son Aszker shot in Lviv ghetto.