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Writing poetry helps me process the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust   April 16, 2021 (JTA) — Not long after the gruesome reality of the Holocaust had burst onto the world’s consciousness, the philosopher and social theorist Theodor Adorno famously observed in 1949 that writing poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric — “nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch.”  Less well known but equally insightful was Adorno’s subsequent conclusion, expressed in a 1966 radio addre...

Writing poetry helps me process the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust Barbed wire fence against a dark sky (Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) — Not long after the gruesome reality of the Holocaust had burst onto the world’s consciousness, the philosopher and social theorist Theodor Adorno famously observed in 1949 that writing poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric — “nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch.”  Less well known but equally insightful was Ado...