Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky (English and Yiddish Edition) [Paperback]

Kadia Molodowsky (Author), Kathryn Hellerstein (Translator)

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Alphabet Letters
And What Will Happen?
At Blue Dawn: 1
At Blue Dawn: 10
At Blue Dawn: 11
At Blue Dawn: 2
At Blue Dawn: 3
At Blue Dawn: 4
At Blue Dawn: 5
At Blue Dawn: 6
At Blue Dawn: 7
At Blue Dawn: 8
At Blue Dawn: 9
At The Mirror: 1
At The Mirror: 2
At The Threshold
Chronicle
Clay-ground: 1
Clay-ground: 10
Clay-ground: 2
Clay-ground: 3
Clay-ground: 4
Clay-ground: 5
Clay-ground: 6
Clay-ground: 7
Clay-ground: 8
Clay-ground: 9
The Cricket
Dead Sabbath
Dzshike Street
Fallen Leaves: 1
Fallen Leaves: 10
Fallen Leaves: 11
Fallen Leaves: 2
Fallen Leaves: 8
Fallen Leaves: 9
The Fife-player Of Sodom
Flood
Freydke
Glorious Shulames Come To Solomon The King
God's Children
Havdalah
Hello, My Heart!
I Am An Echo
I Kick Off My Shoes And Socks In Exhaustion
I Still Don't Have A Gray Hair, Not A One
In Jerusalem, Angels Come
In My Hand Two Feathers From A Pheasant
In Pshenytsa's Workshop
In The Country Of My Bones
In The Green Tree Lies Gray Ash
In The Land Of Israel
In The Magnificent Dwelling Of Eternity
In The Stable Of Life
Iron Dream
January
Jeremiah: 1
Jeremiah: 2
Jeremiah: 3
Jeremiah: 4
Jeremiah: 5
Jonah
Khad Gadya
Leavetaking
Legacy
A Letter (1)
A Letter (2)
A Letter To Elijah The Prophet
Letters From The Ghetto
The Light Of Your Table
The Little Foxes, Little Foxes
Little Shoes
Love
The Low Ceiling
Marching
Marzipans
Merciful God
Moses And Aaron
A Mother
My Children
My Day
My Father's Fur Coat
My Harness
My Language
My Paper Bridge
My Room, Then, Is A Ship
My Ship Of Gopher Wood
My Tow-boat
My Ultimate Biography
Night Visitors
No Letters Arrive Anymore
Olke
On The Paper Bridge
Only King David Remained
Open The Gate
Otwock: 1
Otwock: 2
Otwock: 4
Otwock: 6
Otwock: 7
Our Ship
Pages
A Poem About Itself
A Poem To My Clothes Closet
A Poem To The Paper Bridge
Poor Women: 1
Poor Women: 2
Poor Women: 6
Poor Women: 7
A Prayer
Prayers: 1
Prayers: 2
Prayers: 3
Proposition
Psalm Of Ascents
Randam Sinking
A Refugee
The Rivalry Of Writers Increases Wisdom
The River
The Sabbath Song
Self-portrait
Shelter Me In A Leaf
Shloyminke The Blacksmith
The Shofar Blower
Shulames
The Song Of Diogenes
A Street In The Year 1930
Strike
The Tale Of A Washtub
Thirst: 1
Thirst: 2
Thirst: 3
Thirst: 4
Thirst: 5
To A Child's Portrait
Today Is A Quiet Day: 1
Today Is A Quiet Day: 2
The Unrecounted Page
Veiling
When Nobody Calls Me
A White Poem
The Wind Has Grown Old
Without Words
Women-poems: 1
Women-poems: 2
Women-poems: 3
Women-poems: 4
Women-poems: 5
Women-poems: 6
Women-poems: 7
Women-poems: 8
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Language Notes

Text: English, Yiddish (translation)
Original Language: Yiddish --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 552 pages
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press (July 1999)
• Language: English, Yiddish
• ISBN-10: 0814327184
• ISBN-13: 978-0814327180
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,755,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars A small gem of yiddish poetry in translation, July 3, 2004

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This review is from: Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky (English and Yiddish Edition) (Paperback)

Known mostly for her chidren's poems, Molodowsky was also editor for more than 30 years of a Yiddish magazine in New York, named Surroundings. Among the poems in this collection is the memorable "Merciful God," written after World War II where she laments the pain and price of the "chosen people" who have no more left to give. She ends "And do us one more favor: Merciful God, deprive us of the Divine presence of genius."

A niche book of poetry, but a fine one that is very accessible to readers, particularly women.

5.0 out of 5 stars A voice of the Jewish people, May 2, 2007

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This review is from: Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky (Hardcover)

Kadya Molodowsky contributed for over half a century her part in that 'Paper Bridge' she hoped would be the redemption of the Jewish people.In Kiev in Warsaw in New York and in Eretz Yisrael she wrote a poetry which at one stage focused on the poor and homeless of the Jewish people,at another on the woman's role in traditional Judaism, and still later on their situation in the wake of the 'Shoah'. Her most famous poem admirably translated here by Kathryn Hellerstein " Lord of Mercy" is a fierce ironic indictment of the special Jewish fate, a complaint and plea to G-d to stop choosing the Jews if this means their being chosen for extraordinary persecution and suffering.