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.
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"Readers who think that Yiddish literature in America began and ended with Nobel-prizewinner Isaac Bashevis Singer will find a new book from Stanford University Press to be a revelation. American Yiddish Poetry: a Bilingual Anthology by Benjamin Harshav and Barbara Harshav is a virtuoso production, 813 pages of essays, original texts, and deft translations of seven worthy, yet often overlooked, early 20th century poets like A. Leyeles and Jacob Glatshteyn."—Commentary
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Text: English, Yiddish (translation)
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This is a wonderful anthology - contains in Yiddish and English a large selection of poetry by major American Yiddish poets. The editors/translators provide a very helpful introduction dealing with history and form(s) of Yiddish poetry, its relationship to modern European and American poetry. The translations themselves are generally excellent. The appendix includes fascinating documentary material otherwise difficult to come by - and impossible to find elsewhere in English. One can only hope that the anthology - reprinted now for the first time since 1987 - will stay in print.
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