New haven register obituaries 20184/30/2024 This meant she was immunocompromised and part of a population that is especially vulnerable to this disease. My mom had also been fighting rheumatoid arthritis for many years. Nine days later she lost her battle to COVID-19. All we could do for the mom who gave us everything is tell her how much we loved her and hope that somehow, she could hear us. On a day when we would usually shower her with gifts and take her out to lunch, my family huddled around our phones and tablets as the nurse showed her to us over video chat. This Mother’s Day, my mom was sedated and on a ventilator. ![]() Stephanie Zacharek Romi Aneja Romi Aneja Courtesy Abhijna Harvu ![]() Let’s think of them with wet eyes and a high heart. These are just some of the people who have been taken from us, even as they have left us much to remember them by. It’s not comprehensive, nor is it meant to be. That’s the goal of this list: to acknowledge the remarkable and joyful lives of some of those we have lost. Maybe we can be better at celebrating life even as we’re saddened by its loss. But we all, at one time or another, have reason to mourn. We have no roadmap for this new territory. ![]() It’s a book of large truths disguised as small ones: “I remember,” he writes, “those times of not knowing if you feel really happy or really sad. In his jubilant and revivifying memoir, I Remember, the artist and writer Joe Brainard tabulated all the little things that can come to shape how we think about life. There can always be at least a glimmer of joy in remembering things that people gave us while they were here. And when we work up the courage to look beyond our individual personal spheres, we see that many people who have made our world better, in big and small ways, have vanished before we were ready to let them go.īut not even sorrow is one-dimensional. We fear losing-or we may have already lost-people we love. Our sense of remoteness is intensified by a pall of unease we can’t define: Loss and sorrow are also in the air. But just being alone is only part of the difficulty. Sammons | Faculty of Arts and Sciences (yale.One of the biggest challenges of this unsettling time is the isolation we feel as we’re separated from friends and family, all the people for whom we care most deeply. Obituary published in the New Haven Register on February 17, 2021: Professor Sammons will be dearly missed by his colleagues and students. Among his honors: Guggenheim Fellowship American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship and travel grant member, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Humphrey Fellowship, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor of German, Rutgers University. Editor, North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature (43 vols.). Most recent book publications: Friedrich Spielhagen: Novelist of Germany’s False Dawn (2004), Heinrich Heine: Alternative Perspectives 1985-2005 (2006), and Kuno Francke’s Edition of The German Classics (1913-15): A Critical and Historical Overview (2009), as well as a translation with commentary: Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Börne: A Memorial (2006). Topics of his research include Heine, Young Germany and the Vormärz, literary sociology, nineteenth-century realists, especially Raabe and Spielhagen, and German fiction about America. He was chairman of the Department of German, from 1969-77, 1988-91 and director of the Yale Summer Language Institute, 1980-84. ![]() Professor Sammons joined the Yale German Department in 1964 and continued to serve on the faculty until retirement at the end of 2001. Sammons, Leavenworth Professor of German Literature Emeritus passed away on February 15, 2021, at the age of 84.
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