By Dana Craft,Amelia Glaser,David Weintraub,Yankl Salant,Dovid Katz

ISBN-10: 0299208001

ISBN-13: 9780299208004

ISBN-10: 0299208044

ISBN-13: 9780299208042

This anthology provides a wealthy yet little-known physique of yankee Yiddish poetry from the Nineteen Twenties to the early Nineteen Fifties through thirty-nine poets who wrote from the viewpoint of the proletarian left. awarded on dealing with pages in Yiddish and English translation, those 100 poems are prepared thematically less than such headings as Songs of the store, United in fight, issues of the center, The Poet on Poetry, and Wars to finish All Wars. One part is dedicated to verse depicting the struggles of African americans, together with numerous poems brought on by means of the notorious Scottsboro trial of 9 African American males falsely accused of rape. domestic to a number of the writers, big apple urban is the topic of a different array of poems. the amount comprises an intensive creation through Dovid Katz, a biographical word approximately each one poet, a bibliography, and a timeline of political, social, and literary occasions that offer context for the poetry.

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