Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, born on February 5, 1924, in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, was a Jewish poet and translator. During World War II, the Meerbaum-Eisinger family was deported to the Mikhailovka labor camp in Transnistria (now, Transdniestria, a disputed enclave of Moldova). Meerbaum-Eisinger died on December 16, 1942.

The younger cousin of Paul Celan, her poetry collection Blütenlese: Gedichte [Harvest of Blossoms] was first published by Tel Aviv University in 1979 and edited by Adolf Rauchwerger. Her body of rescued work, Song of the Yellow Asters (World Poetry Books, 2026), was translated by Carlie Hoffman.