Sing, Stranger – A Century of American Yiddish Poetry–A Historical Anthology
Sing, StrangerA Century of American Yiddish Poetrya Historical Anthology\nAuthor(s): Benjamin Harshav, Barbara Harshav\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804751834, 978-0804751834\nSynopsis\nSing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. Here are the Proletarian or \""sweat-shop\"" poets, sympathizing with Socialist Anarchists, who were highly popular with Yiddish audiences at the end of the nineteenth century; the lyrical moods and ironies of the \""Young Generation\"" at the beginning of the twentieth century; the sophisticated poetry of the modern world seen through the individualistic prism of the \""Introspectivists\"" after World War I; samples of epic poetry; and, finally, the poetry of the Holocaust and the decline of the Yiddish language. This anthology reveals both an amazing achievemen.
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