Proletpen
America's Rebel Yiddish Poets
Will be published approx. on 29. February 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
428 pages
978-0-299-20804-2 (ISBN)
Description
This unique anthology translates for the first time a little-known body of Yiddish poetry by American Yiddish proletarian writers who identified with the American Left from the 1920s to the early 1950s. It introduces the reader to an untold chapter of America's tumultuous history during the pre- and interwar period, revealing the depth and power of Yiddish literature through the backdrop of twentieth-century world politics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
20 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-20804-2 (9780299208042)
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Amelia Glaser received her Ph.D in comparative literature from Stanford University. Formerly a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Institute and University of Pennsylvania's Centre for Advanced Judaic Studies, she is currently a visiting lecturer in Yiddish Language and Literature at Stanford. David Weintraub is executive director of the Dora Teitelboim Centre for Yiddish Culture. The Centre is in the forefront of revitalising and reenergising the Yiddish language, helping to reveal the rich Yiddish culture and language once so basic to Jewish life.