908 - [ISRAEL]. VIGÉE, Claude (1921–2020), a Jewish poet. A pacifist, he moved to Israel in 1960. There, he held the chair of French literature at the University of Jerusalem. Winner of the Grand Prix de la Poésie from the Académie française (1996). Set of two documents: a handwritten letter (L.A.S.) and a postcard (L.D.S.), addressed to Jean Bloch-Michel. Jerusalem, Israel, 1961 and 1967. 4 pp., in-4 and in-8 formats. Written in blue ballpoint pen. Printed letterhead reading “The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.” File-hole punches in the left margin, one per letter, without affecting the text.

[ISRAEL]. VIGÉE, Claude (1921–2020), a Jewish poet. A pacifist, he moved to Israel in 1960. There, he held the chair of French literature at the University of Jerusalem. Winner of the Grand Prix de la Poésie from the Académie française (1996). Set of two documents: a handwritten letter (L.A.S.) and a postcard (L.D.S.), addressed to Jean Bloch-Michel. Jerusalem, Israel, 1961 and 1967. 4 pp., in-4 and in-8 formats. Written in blue ballpoint pen. Printed letterhead reading “The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.” File-hole punches in the left margin, one per letter, without affecting the text. Claude Vigée in Jerusalem: - December 10, 1961: “[...] How are your plans for a trip to the Middle East coming along? Did Bondy come back here for the verdict in the Eichmann trial?” He mentions the proofs of his *Poème du retour*, which “should be published around February or March. The proofs aren’t ready yet. I’m expecting them for Christmas or early January. So you have [...] nearly six months to ‘find a spot’ and slip my poems into the magazine [...].” He also sends his regards to Bondy, Tavernier, and Pierre Emmanuel. -December 9, 1967: “[...] the great difference from Auschwitz or Xavier Vallat—beyond our justified (though hardly surprising) consternation, beyond our perhaps naïve and already anachronistic indignation—stands here, now, the Wall of the Jew’s identity with himself—a Wall bathed in tears, certainly, by all generations of exile, but unshakable as the bedrock of Mount Moriah upon which stands once more, WITH HIS BACK AGAINST THE WALL OF HIMSELF, this Jacob, an expert in confrontations with angels or trials, this Jacob whose father—a survivor of the stake—was named Yits’hak, “he will laugh”... Former suicide victims, former genocide survivors, those who miraculously escaped Hitler or Nasser—with all due respect to your “righteous” people on all sides [...].”