Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814328466 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 568 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kathryn Hellerstein is a lecturer in Yiddish language and literature in the Department of Germanic Languages and the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.. She returned there in 1971 to receive the Itzik Manger Prize, the most prestigious award in Yiddish letters. In New York, she supported herself by writing for the Yiddish press and founded a literary journal, Svive (Surroundings), which she edited for nearly thirty years. Molodowsky participated in nearly every aspect o
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®
"beautiful, profoundly thoughtful" according to Amazon Customer. This is a book of poetry, beautiful, profoundly thoughtful, evocative and powerful.. "A small gem of yiddish poetry in translation" according to A Customer. Known mostly for her chidren's poems, Molodowsky was also editor for more than A small gem of yiddish poetry in translation 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 . 0 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
She returned there in 1971 to receive the Itzik Manger Prize, the most prestigious award in Yiddish letters.. Molodowsky participated in nearly every aspect of Yiddish literary culture that existed in her lifetime, first in Poland, where she lived until 1935, when she emigrated, and then in America. Briefly during the early 1950s, Molodowsky wrote and edited Yiddish publications in the new state of Israel. In New York, she supported herself by writing for the Yiddish press and founded a literary journal, Svive (Surroundings), which she edited for nearly thirty years. Between 1927 and 1974, she published six major books of poetry, as well as fiction, plays, essays, and children's tales. Kadya Molodowsky (1894-1975) was among the most accomplished and prolific of modern Yiddish poets. Before her emigration, Molodowsky taught young children in the Yiddish schools of Warsaw