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The Last Lullaby - Poetry from the Holocaust (Hardcover, 1st ed) Loot Price: R813
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The Last Lullaby - Poetry from the Holocaust (Hardcover, 1st ed): Aaron Kramer

The Last Lullaby - Poetry from the Holocaust (Hardcover, 1st ed)

Aaron Kramer

Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust

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The Last Lullaby is the culmination of Aaron Kramer's fifty years devoted to translating poetry spawned by the Holocaust. The full horror of the genocide and the sublime spirit of those who resisted are given voice on these pages. These poets -- originally writing in Yiddish -- speak from the ghettos, way-stations, death camps, and partisan forests.

Placing each group in its historic and literary content with comprehensive introductory essays, Professor Kramer presents works mostly unavailable in English -- until now. For the very first time, readers can become familiar with poets who experienced the horrors of the ghettos and the death camps and survived: Soviet poets; American poets who were forever transformed by the Holocaust. Kramer also introduces the 1944 Terezin opera Der Kaiser yon Atlantis.

The Last Lullaby is a testament to the richness of a half-annihilated language that, in the pain of its survivors, was made more beautiful than ever before. Unlike most other current translators, Kramer insists on maintaining the music of the original Yiddish, the often "folkish" cadence and rhyme which, he believes, are a precious part of these poems' legacy.

General

Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
Release date: April 1998
First published: March 1998
Editors: Aaron Kramer
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 292
Edition: 1st ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0478-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
LSN: 0-8156-0478-5
Barcode: 9780815604785

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