Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry—A Historical Anthology
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804751838 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 760 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Both the impressive, but not cumbersome, size of this anthology and its historical and geographic focus allow for making more than such fleeting acquaintances. Many anthologies have tended to give relatively furtive glimpses of a poet's creation, or suggestive hints of the flavours of his or her poetry. The strength of the work, the thing that makes it of such moment, is the heterogeneous and fluid notion of Americanness which is at the heart of the project."—Modern Language Revie
Wonderful! Thank you, Harshav and Harshav, for your work! This is a wonderful collection, well-translated and with excellent introductions and biographies of the poets. I am a graduate student studying Yiddish literature, and often recommend this book to friends. Hopefully a paperbac
Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. This anthology reveals both an amazing achievement of Jewish creative work and an important body of American poetry, written in a minority language, practically unknown to most readers. 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 poe