Eva Scheer | |
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.jpg) Scheer in 1981 | |
| Born | (1915-03-13)13 March 1915 Oslo, Norway |
| Died | 22 June 1999(1999-06-22) (aged 84) |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Occupation(s) | journalist, literary critic, translator and author |
Eva Scheer (13 March 1915 – 22 June 1999) was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, translator and author.
Scheer was born on 13 March 1915 inOslo to Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. In 1942, during theGerman occupation of Norway, several of her family members were deported and eventually murdered in theAuschwitz concentration camp, while Scheer managed to flee to Sweden.[1]
AfterWorld War II, Scheer worked as journalist for the newspaperArbeiderbladet. She made her literary debut in 1948, with the bookVi bygger i sand. She was a co-founder of theNorwegian Association of Literary Translators in 1948, and also worked as literary critic. She was a reporter forArbeiderbladet in Palestine and Israel during the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, and her books on this issue includeVi møttes i Jerusalem from 1951, andIsrael: dobbelt-løftets land from 1967. In 1954 she wrote the children's bookTeddybjørn på bølgelengde.[1]
Her bookPosene på gjerdestolpen from 1977 contains Jewish fairytales and folklore translated for children.[2] Her later books includePapirbroen: jødisk drøm og virkelighet (1979),Tre er fedrene, fire mødrene (1981),En smak av vintreets frukt (1982), andHundene gjør ved vanningsstedet (1983).[1]
Scheer died on 22 June 1999. The bookJødiske fortellinger: Fra shtetl til Grünerløkka was published in 2015, containing a collection of jewish stories written down by Scheer. In 2015 she was also part of the exhibitionKvinner i jiddisch kultur hosted at theJewish Museum in Oslo.[1]
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