American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology

by Barbara Harshav and Benjamin Harshav

Book Overview

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. The range of American Yiddish Poetry runs the gamut from individualistic verse of alienation in the modern metropolis, responses to Western culture and ideologies, and experiments with poetic form and the resources of the Yiddish language, to the vitriolic associative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804751706
• ISBN13: 9780804751704
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 840 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 8.0" x 9.0"