I Want to Fall Like This
Selected Poems of Rukl Fishman
Published on 1. October 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-8143-2541-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is a collection of the poetry of Rukhl Fishman, the youngest and only American-born Yiddish poet of the ""Yung Yisroel"". This group of poets and prose writers from across the world settled in Israel after World War II, and used Yiddish rather than Hebrew, to bridge gaps across time and place.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Detroit, MI
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustration
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
307 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8143-2541-4 (9780814325414)
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Persons
Rukhl Fishman is the author of two volumes of verse in Yiddish, Zun iber alts (Sun Over Everything) and Derner nokhn regn (Thistles After Rain), and two bilingual selections of poems in Yiddish and Hebrew, Shamayim B'eysev/Himl tsvishn grozn(Heaven in the Grass) and Vilde tsig (Wild She-Goat). She was awarded the prestigious Manger Prize for Yiddish literature in 1978. Seymour Levitan was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Simon Fraser University. His translations of Yiddish poems and stories are included in Voices Within the Ark, The Spice Box, Identifications, The Penguin Book of Yiddish Verse, A Treasury of Yiddish Stories, and other anthologies. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.