Anna Safran's Tireborn,' Novel About French Resistance
"The Fireborn," published by
Vantage Press (120 WW. 31st,
NY1), is Anna Safran's first
novel. The author has, however,
a number of other works to her
credit and she is not a new-
comer on the publishing arena
and her work are especially
known to Yiddish readers.
A native of Siedlec, Poland,
who came tc this country at the
age of 14 to join her uncle in
New York, Anne was a typical
education-seeking imm igr a nt
who worked by day to be able
to study at night, who married,
raised two children, helped her
husband in business.
She wrote plays and short
stories, and she turned to Yid-
dish to express her poetic feel-
ings, with the result that three
of her collected poetic works in
Yiddish were published in 1945,
1950 and 1960. Her poems also
appeared in anthologies of Eng-
lish poetry and her condemna-
tion of Nazism formed one of
the noteworthy poetic expres-
sions.
In "The Fireborn" she de-
scribes the underground move-
ment in France. It is a descrip-
tion of life in Paris, the battle
against Nazism, a resistance on
the part of a couple that emer-
ges out of the cauldron in a
spirit of love awaiting their
child to be born in freedom
after the defeat of the Nazis,
The Fireborn.
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The heroine is an actress and
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Mrs. Safran evinces a fine
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Here and now a people is strug-
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liberty. It is trying to escape from
its stifling surroundings into the
sunshine. There are three possible
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of our sufferings, contribute to the
progress of humanity, which we
serve.
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