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Authors: Amelia Glaser (Editor), David Weintraub (Editor), Amelia Glaser
ISBN-13: 9780299208004, ISBN-10: 0299208001
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: 1

Author Biography: Amelia Glaser

Amelia Glaser, formerly a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center who received her Ph.D in comparative literature from Stanford University, is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
David Weintraub is Executive Director of the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture in Coral Gables, Florida. The Center is in the forefront of revitalizing and reenergizing the Yiddish language, helping to reveal the rich Yiddish culture, language, and stories that were once so basic to Jewish life.

Book Synopsis

In the original with English translation on facing pages, Glaser (Judaic studies, U. of Pennsylvania) presents Yiddish poetry written by American proletarian writers who identified politically and poetically with the American Left from the 1920s to the early 1950s. McCarthy-era political correctness drove the poets and their work from the burgeoning Yiddish canon. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Introduction : the days of proletpen in American Yiddish poetry	3
	New York	30
	My New York street sings	36
	from America	38
	Shadows	40
	from "On the Hudson"	42
	Wolves	44
	By the river	48
	On the street corner	52
	Men	54
	In your eyes	60
	from "To my shtetl years"	62
	A blessing over bread	64
	Italian masons	66
	The miner's family	70
	Sacco and Vanzetti	74
	Vanzetti's ghost	76
	Visiting Jesus	82
	On roads	88
	My father the foundryman	100
	Two songs of a blacksmith	108
	At the machine	112
	The machine	114
	Figaro	116
	Strike	120
	The call	122
	Chandeliers	124
	Shir Asheydim Ansher	126
	from "Going up"	128
	Negro song	136
	Scottsboro	138
	Scottsboro	142
	Done a good job	144
	Neckst	152
	Grand Central by night	158
	Negro on the subway	160
	Whiteness	164
	A Negro dies	166
	Jim the janitor is dead	170
	The fly	176
	Hounds howl at the moon	178
	Earth dream	182
	Breath of spring	186
	Winter	190
	The hungerdance	192
	The man who is out of work talks to his son about the sunset	198
	Ballad of the night	200
	Rain	202
	When the moon isn't shining	204
	To a butterfly	208
	Bring me your woes	220
	Strike of the coal miners	222
	In any case	226
	The old woman	228
	My October song	230
	Vengeance	232
	Eviction fight	234
	Rosa Luxemburg	236
	Anna Pauker	238
	We are the heirs	242
	Not-a	244
	Kh'hob dikh lib	254
	To my beloved	256
	Triangle	258
	Threesome	260
	Your arms	262
	Sonnet and duet for flapper and poet	264
	Fight and play	266
	My heart	270
	My Bas-Sheva	272
	A kiss	276
	In pencil	278
	The song	284
	I have not woven my poems ...	286
	Today	288
	Sergei Yesenin	290
	Morris Winchevsky	294
	To Mani Leyb	298
	Hands	300
	The brave coward	302
	Out of the depths	310
	Dead chrysanthemums	312
	Spanish lullaby	318
	Andalusian landscape	322
	No Pasaran	326
	War lullaby	330
	Greetings from my shtetl (a letter from Poland)	332
	My shtetl on the Dnestr	336
	Child, you new man	338
	Toye-voye	340
	Word	346
	Her three unborn baby boys	354
	Suicide	360
	A third	362
	The man who hanged himself	366
	A man falls at work	370
	Selfwriting	372
	Without God's blessing	374
	Kaddish	376
	Afterwards	378
	Gambling	380