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Proletpen : America's rebel Yiddish poets

Title
Proletpen : America's rebel Yiddish poets / edited by Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub ; translated by Amelia Glaser ; with illustrations by Dana Craft ; special editorial assistance from Yankl Salant.
Publication
  • Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press ; [Coral Gables, Fla.] : Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, [2005]
  • ©2005
Supplementary Content
  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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Additional Authors
  • Glaser, Amelia
  • Weintraub, David, 1958-
  • Craft, Dana
Description
xviii, 409 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"This unique anthology translates for the first time a little-known body of Yiddish poetry by American Yiddish proletarian writers who identified politically and poetically with the American Left from the 1920s to the early 1950s."--Jacket.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Yiddish poetry > United States > Translations into English
  • Yiddish poetry > 20th century > Translations into English
  • Yiddish poetry > United States > History and criticism
  • Yiddish poetry
  • Yiddish poetry > Translations into English
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Translations.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-409).
Language (note)
  • Text in English; poems in Yiddish with English translation.
Contents
The days of proletpen in American Yiddish poetry / Dovid Katz -- Urban landscape -- Being a "greener" -- Sons of the shop -- Speaking of Scottsboro -- Encounters with the elements -- United in struggle -- Matters of the heart -- The poet on poetry -- Wars to end all wars -- Matters of life and death.
Call Number
PJ5191.E3
ISBN
  • 0299208001
  • 9780299208004
  • 0299208044
  • 9780299208042
LCCN
2004025729
OCLC
56905435
Title
Proletpen : America's rebel Yiddish poets / edited by Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub ; translated by Amelia Glaser ; with illustrations by Dana Craft ; special editorial assistance from Yankl Salant.
Publisher
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press ; [Coral Gables, Fla.] : Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, [2005]
Copyright Date
©2005
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-409).
Language
Text in English; poems in Yiddish with English translation.
Local Note
Ania R. Hoptman Memorial Fund for Jewish Literature.
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Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Glaser, Amelia, editor.
Weintraub, David, 1958- editor.
Craft, Dana, translator.
Other Form:
Online version: Proletpen. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ; [Coral Gables, Fla.] : Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, ©2005 (OCoLC)606418300
Online version: Proletpen. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ; [Coral Gables, Fla.] : Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, ©2005 (OCoLC)607699132
Research Call Number
Desk-JWS PJ5191.E3 P76 2005
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