Songs in dark times : Yiddish poetry of struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine /

"Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth-Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicans-in Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Glaser, Amelia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Yiddish
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Yiddish poetry > 20th century.
Yiddish poetry > Social aspects > History > 20th century.
Poets, Yiddish > Political and social views > History > 20th century.
Jews > Intellectual life.
Communist literature > 20th century.
Poésie yiddish > 20e siècle.
Poésie yiddish > Aspect social > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Poètes yiddish > Pensée politique et sociale > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Juifs > Vie intellectuelle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
Communist literature.
Yiddish poetry.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The age of optimists
  • Introduction: Passwords
  • Yiddish poetry in the age of internationalism
  • From the Yangtse to the Black Sea: Esther Shumiatsher's travels
  • Angry winds: Jewish leftists and the challenge of Palestine
  • Scottsboro cross: translating pogroms to lynchings
  • No pasarán: Jewish collective memory in the Spanish Civil War
  • My songs, My dumas: rewriting Ukraine
  • Teshuvah: Moyshe Nadir's relocated passwords
  • Afterword: Kaddish
  • mourning words after the Second World War.

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