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Sing, Stranger - A Century of American Yiddish Poetry-A Historical Anthology (Hardcover, 3., Bearb. Aufl)
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Sing, Stranger - A Century of American Yiddish Poetry-A Historical Anthology (Hardcover, 3., Bearb. Aufl)
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Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century
of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into
English for the first time. Here are the Proletarian or
"sweat-shop" poets, sympathizing with Socialist Anarchists, who
were highly popular with Yiddish audiences at the end of the
nineteenth century; the lyrical moods and ironies of the "Young
Generation" at the beginning of the twentieth century; the
sophisticated poetry of the modern world seen through the
individualistic prism of the "Introspectivists" after World War I;
samples of epic poetry; and, finally, the poetry of the Holocaust
and the decline of the Yiddish language. This anthology reveals
both an amazing achievement of Jewish creative work and an
important body of American poetry, written in a minority language,
practically unknown to most readers. The travails, joys, and
intimate experiences of the individual in the big metropolis are
intertwined with representations of American realities:
architecture and alienation in the big city, the migration of the
blacks, trade unions and underworld, the immigrant experience in
this immense and strange land, and the destinies of Jewish history.
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