American Yiddish Poetry

American Yiddish Poetry
Author: Benjamin Harshav
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 844
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780804751704

This remarkable volume introduces what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. Includes a bilingual facing-page format, notes and biographies of poets, and selections from Yiddish theory and criticism.

Proletpen

Proletpen
Author: Amelia Glaser
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2005-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0299208036

This anthology presents a rich but little-known body of American Yiddish poetry from the 1920s to the early 1950s by thirty-nine poets who wrote from the perspective of the proletarian left. Presented on facing pages in Yiddish and English translation, these one hundred poems are organized thematically under such headings as Songs of the Shop, United in Struggle, Matters of the Heart, The Poet on Poetry, and Wars to End All Wars. One section is devoted to verse depicting the struggles of African Americans, including several poems prompted by the infamous Scottsboro trial of nine African American men falsely accused of rape. Home to many of the writers, New York City is the subject of a varied array of poems. The volume includes an extensive introduction by Dovid Katz, a biographical note about each poet, a bibliography, and a timeline of political, social, and literary events that provide context for the poetry. Winner of the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for Outstanding Translation A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Jewish American Poetry

Jewish American Poetry
Author: Jonathan N. Barron
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2000
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9781584650430

A rich and provocative overview of Jewish American poetry.

American Yiddish Poetry

American Yiddish Poetry
Author: Benjamin Harshav
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 844
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520048423

Provides information on the Yiddish language and literature, describes poetic forms, and gathers poems in Yiddish and English by seven of the best Jewish American poets

Sing, Stranger

Sing, Stranger
Author: Benjamin Harshav
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 792
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780804751834

Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. This anthology reveals both an amazing achievement of Jewish creative work and an important body of American poetry.

Modern Yiddish Verse

Modern Yiddish Verse
Author: Irving Howe
Publisher: Viking Adult
Total Pages: 756
Release: 1987
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A gift dedicated to Leonard Bernstein on his 70th birthday (1988). It was signed by the artist, Yossi Stern, and by Teddy Kollek. In addition to the numerous line drawings illustrating the poetry, Stern crafted an original book cover with a colorful drawing of a wedding scene.

Songs in Dark Times

Songs in Dark Times
Author: Amelia M. Glaser
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0674248457

A probing reading of leftist Jewish poets who, during the interwar period, drew on the trauma of pogroms to depict the suffering of other marginalized peoples. Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth—Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicans—in Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective trauma but embracing a global community of the oppressed. The long 1930s, Amelia M. Glaser proposes, gave rise to a genre of internationalist modernism in which tropes of national collective memory were rewritten as the shared experiences of many national groups. The utopian Jews of Songs in Dark Times effectively globalized the pogroms in a bold and sometimes fraught literary move that asserted continuity with anti-Arab violence and black lynching. As communists and fellow travelers, the writers also sought to integrate particular experiences of suffering into a borderless narrative of class struggle. Glaser resurrects their poems from the pages of forgotten Yiddish communist periodicals, particularly the New York–based Morgn Frayhayt (Morning Freedom) and the Soviet literary journal Royte Velt (Red World). Alongside compelling analysis, Glaser includes her own translations of ten poems previously unavailable in English, including Malka Lee’s “God’s Black Lamb,” Moyshe Nadir’s “Closer,” and Esther Shumiatsher’s “At the Border of China.” These poets dreamed of a moment when “we” could mean “we workers” rather than “we Jews.” Songs in Dark Times takes on the beauty and difficulty of that dream, in the minds of Yiddish writers who sought to heal the world by translating pain.

The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry

The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry
Author: Deborah Ager
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441183043

The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry collects more than 200 poems by over 100 poets to celebrate contemporary writers, born after World War II, who write about Jewish themes. In bringing together poets whose writings explore cultural Jewish topics with those who directly address Jewish religious themes as well as those who only indirectly touch on their Jewishness, this anthology offers a fascinating insight into what it is to be a Jewish poet. Featuring established poets as well as representatives of the next generation of Jewish voices, included are poems by, among others, Ellen Bass, Jane Hirshfield, Ed Hirsch, David Lehman, Charles Bernstein, Carol V. Davis, Judith Skillman, Jacqueline Osherow, Alan Shapiro, Ira Sadoff, Melissa Stein, Matthew Zapruder, Philip Schultz, and Jane Shore.

Telling and Remembering

Telling and Remembering
Author: Steven Joel Rubin
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN:

A collection of "more than two hundred poems by American Jewish poets on Jewish subjects and themes."--Jacket.