A collection of analyses of Paul Celan's work as a translator is supplemented here by studies on and by translators of Celan's works into other languages. The intriguing quality of this confrontation lies in the light it trains on the necessity of subjecting the language and the interpretation of a poem to a process of transformation extending to the very terms in which they are cast.

The question of whether Palestine, where Else Lasker-SchA1/4ler spent the last six years of her life (1939-1945), was in fact able to represent a 'home' for her is discussed in this study from a variety of new vantages. Of central importance here is an understanding of Else Lasker-SchA1/4ler's 'transgressive' view of her host country, i.e. a view concentrating on the dynamics of various kinds of transition. This generates a new perspective not only on the late poems and the posthumously published drama AIchundichA written in Jerusalem but also on the book ADas HebrAerlandA, the fruit of her first journey to Palestine.