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Sing, stranger : a century of American Yiddish poetry : a historical anthology

Title: Sing, stranger : a century of American Yiddish poetry : a historical anthology / edited by Benjamin Harshav ; translated by Benjamin Harshav and Barbara Harshav.
Publication: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2006.
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xxxii, 726 pages : illustrations, music; 27 cm

Summary

"Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English. Here are the proletarian or "sweatshop" poets, sympathizing with socialist anarchists, who were 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; the poetry of women poets; 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."--Jacket.

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Genre/Form

Translations.
Poetry.
Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prelude -- / Yehuda Leyb Gordon (1829-1892)Dr. G. Zelikovitch -- / A. Leyeles (1889-1966)Storms and Towers -- / Ruven Ludvig (1895-1926)Sing, Stranger -- / H. Leyvik(1888-1962)Yiddish Poets -- / Berish Vaynshteyn (1905-1967)On Your Soil, America -- / Jacob Glatshteyn (1896-1971)In the Middle of the Road -- Proletarian Poets -- Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) -- Why I Am I: As a Worker -- The Swearing-In (Fragment) -- The Millionaire of Tears -- The Sweatshop -- The Pale Apreyter -- A Tear on the Iron -- To My Beloved -- The Bride of the Mountains -- Shoot the Beast -- The Bradley Martin Ball -- Evening -- Niagara Falls -- The White Devils: Thoughts about New York's Underground Trains -- Three Generations -- Scenes in the Mountains -- The Ghetto in the Catskills -- Dovid Edelshtat (1866-1892) -- In Strife -- My Testament -- The Miner -- The Child-Murderer -- August Spies -- The Two-Legged Beast -- Louis Lingg -- The Jewish Proletarian -- Wake Up! -- To the Working Women -- My Dream -- Tears -- Yoysef Bovshover (1873-1915) -- Revolution -- A Song to the People -- To the People -- The Lyrical Turn -- Yehoash (1872-1927) -- Flowers and Thorns -- The Mightiest -- Folk Ballad -- Snow -- Snow-Rest -- Beautiful Is the Forest Alone -- Woven In (I, 1919) -- Grass -- I Cannot Understand -- Among the Trees -- Gray -- A Buddha Prayer -- An Eye -- Subway -- Rising -- Woven In (II, 1921) -- My Ships... -- The Girl of the Mists -- Dancing -- Summer Sun -- Microcosm -- Blooming -- Trees -- October -- Snow Stars -- Eyes -- Woolworth Tower -- Broadway -- In the Crowd -- Cinema -- Lynching -- Fun-Yen -- Kozumi the Old Carver -- Bakhr Esh-Shaytan -- In the Temple -- Your Teacher -- Remembrance -- Song -- Mani Leyb (1883-1953) -- I Have My Mama's Black Hair -- My White Joy -- I Am the Climbing Vine -- Seven Brothers -- Who?... -- My Papa -- Avrom Lyesin and I -- Stars Drip -- Jewish Letters -- Three Wanderers -- The Mountain -- The Wonder Horse -- Funny Sonny Smart -- Y. Rolnik (1879-1955) -- A Window to the South -- Like Tranquil Water -- From the Window -- Shabbos -- Bread from the Pocket -- The Abandoned Bridge -- Rest -- A Winter Dawn -- A Morning -- Back from Prayer -- A Winter Night -- The Fishing Rod -- Moab's Daughters -- Ducks -- A Stain -- Turets -- Riverside Drive -- Ruven Ayzland (1884-1955) -- Still Life -- Clouds -- Night Reflex -- Four Boys in White Shirts -- In the Port -- From My Summer -- The Song of the Stupid Hosid and Other Fools -- David Elkin -- My Poems -- B. Vladek (1886-1938) -- The Voice that Spoke... -- The Badlands -- Zisho Landoy (1889-1937) -- 1911-1915 -- I, the People, and the Waitresses -- Verses -- Tuesday -- August 28, 1915 -- My Happiness -- This Evening -- My Dear Ruven Ayzland -- In the El -- Of Course I Know... -- 1916-1918 -- A Sweaty German Helmet -- And Discussing in the Cafe... -- 1919-1924 -- In the El -- Oh, How Many Smells... -- Limbs -- Pine Hill -- I Have a Big Favor to Ask, Brothers... -- The Little Piggy -- A Very Wonderful Tale of the Rebbe Rabbi Elimelekh of Lizhensk and the Rebbe Rabbi Naftoli of Ropshitz -- The White Lamb -- 1925-1937 -- The Poem of Tired Porcelain -- Leg in Space -- The Poem of Green-Blue Beads -- Marquise Batovim -- Avrom Reyzen (1876-1953) -- Six Million People -- My Home -- Symbolism and Expressionism -- H. Leyvik (1888-1962) -- Poems (1919) -- Somewhere Far Away -- On the Roads of Siberia -- In Snow (Fragments) -- In No-man's-land (1923) -- The Yellow-White Glow -- Under the Tread of My Feet -- Unsatiated Passions -- The Sick Birds -- Over the Sleeping Eyes -- Here Lives the Jewish People -- The Wolf: A Chronicle (1920) -- And It Was on the Third Day in the Morning -- And Jews Expelled from Other Places -- And It Was in the Morning When the Jews -- And It Was Just Before the Afternoon Prayer When the Stranger -- And on the Eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement -- And it Was When the Blower of the Horn Put the Shofar -- Poems (1932-1940) -- The Sturdy in Me -- Thee Holy Song of the Holy Grocer -- White Moon -- Clouds Behind the Forest -- Poems from Paradise (1932-1936) -- Denver Sanatorium-New York -- Open Up, Gate -- Again a Neighbor Died -- Yiddish Poets -- Mima'amakim -- Song of the Yellow Patch -- A Leaf on an Apple Tree (1955) -- In Fire -- When We Let Ourselves Run Downhill -- First Grass -- Holiday -- Bullfight -- Kabbalists in Safed -- With Exultation, as We Can! -- To America -- Moyshe-Layb Halpern (1886-1932) -- In New York (1919) -- Momento Mori -- Why Not -- The Street Drummer -- Our Garden -- This Is Our Lot -- Ghingeli -- My Restlessness Is of a Wolf -- Tuesday -- "Watch Your Step!" -- In the Golden Land -- Not His Blood -- Go Throw Them Out... -- The Golden Peacock (1924) -- The Story of the World -- Zlochov, My Home -- The Bird -- Aby Kirly, The War Hero -- With Myself -- I Shall Never Go On Braggin' -- Zarkhi on the Seashore -- Zarkhi to Himself -- Zarkhi, His Pipe to the Yard, Cries -- From Zarkhi's Teachings -- What Do We Know, Dear Brothers -- Posthumous Poems (1934)-I -- Salute -- Night in Manhattan -- Sacco-Vanzetti -- To the One Who Seeks Me -- From My Royzele's Diary -- Your Dress -- Summer Rain -- Overtime -- He Who Calls Himself Leader -- The Bird Mertsifint -- The Ballad of Moyshe Kramgold -- The Old Leader Complains -- Make for Him a Revolution, If You Can! -- The Messiah-Seeker -- A Poem of a Love -- A Velvet Dress -- Married -- My Only Son -- In Central Park -- Kol Nidrey -- The Poem of Boynisl the Orphan -- My Crying-Out-Loud -- Posthumous Poems (1934)-II -- How Long Will I Stand -- My Blind Neighbor -- There Wasn't -- So Far, So-So -- So It Shall Be -- I and You -- In a "Speakeasy"-The Flower Girl -- We The Revolutionaries or This America -- Shalamouses -- My Crying-Out-Loud -- New York-Mount Clemens -- This I Said to My Only Son at Play-and to Nobody Else -- Berish Vaynshteyn (1905-1967) -- Broken Pieces (1936) -- On the Docks -- Sailors -- My Street-Sheepshead Bay -- Negroes -- Negro Village -- Negro Geo'ge -- Laundry -- Harlem Negroes -- Lynching -- Guys of the Volye -- Guys of the Volye -- Slaughter -- Dogs of Dawn -- New York Everywhere -- Sheep in New York -- Mangin Street -- People Who Talk to Themselves -- Division Street -- Junk -- New York Everywhere -- Poems (1949) -- Harlem-A Negro Ghetto -- Hides -- Introspectivism -- A.
Leyeles (1889-1966) -- The God of Israel -- Labryinth (1918) -- Winter-Night Sonnet -- New York -- Young-Autumn (1922) -- Castles -- Whiteness -- Young-Autumn -- Taos -- Yuola -- Rondeaux and Other Poems (1926) -- Villanelle of the Mystical Cycle -- New York -- Wall Street -- Manhattan Bridge -- In the Subway: 1 -- In the Subway: 2 -- In the Subway: 3 -- Madison Square -- Evening -- Night -- On Broadway -- Autumn: A Sonnet Garland -- Storms and Towers -- November -- Symmetry -- Immobile -- I Came from Ethiopia -- Fabius Lind (1937) -- Fabius Lind's Days -- From 'Fabius Lind's Diary' -- January 28 -- January 30 -- February 1 -- February 4 -- February 7 -- February 10 -- February 15 -- February 17 -- February 23 -- My Poems -- Cold Night -- Bolted Room -- An Encounter -- Moscow Night, End of December 1934 -- Fabius Lind Is Riding the Wind -- Fabius Lind to Comrade Death -- The Madonna in the Subway -- Fabius Lind to Fabius Lind -- A Jew in the Sea (1947) -- The Poem -- That's It -- Late Hour -- On a Sixth Floor -- Foreign Fencers -- Shlomo Molkho Sings on the Eve of His Burning -- Herod -- Fatal Longing -- On the Hudson -- Why? -- Sabbath Hours -- Desert Madness -- At the Foot of the Mountain (1957) -- What Do People Do? -- It Will Pour -- In Gray Light -- On the Way Back -- Islandish -- A Variant -- A Red Beard -- Rondeau of My Life's Walk -- Jacob Glatshteyn (1896-1971) -- Jacob Glatshteyn (1921) -- 1919 -- The Proud King -- Bayonets -- Property -- Turtledoves -- Twelve -- Arteriosclerosis -- Free Verse (1920) -- Abishag -- On My Two-Hundredth Birthday -- Like Chaff -- Gaggie -- Evening-Bread -- Autumn -- A Death-Charade -- s The Cry of the Gravediggers -- Credos (1929) -- Ballad -- Girl of My Generation -- A Song -- I Am Coming to You -- From Our Yoke -- Sheeny Mike -- Autobiography -- Jewish Kingdoms -- The Baron Tells of His Last Experience -- Exegyddish (1937) -- From the Nursery -- Clock and Mommie -- A Boy and a Roll -- Night, Be Mood to Me -- To a Friend Who Wouldn't Bother to Strain His Noodleboard Because Even So It Is Hard to Go Hunting When Your Rifle Is Blunt and Love Is Soft as an Old Blanket -- Dissolution -- We the Wordproletariat -- Songs of Remembrance (1943) -- Small Night-Music -- Songs of Remembrance -- Good Night, World -- Wagons -- A Hunger Fell upon Us -- On the Butcher Block -- Here I Have Never Been -- Nakhman of Bratslav to His Scribe -- Nakhman of Bratslav to His Scribe -- Hear and Be Stunned -- Radiant Jews (1946) -- Without Jews -- My Wander-Brother -- Resistance in the Ghetto -- My Children's-Children's Past -- Chopin Nocturne -- My Father's Shadow (1953) -- We, of the Singing Swords -- Dostoyevsky -- I Shall Transport Myself -- Our Teacher Moses -- Beginning -- Evening Jews -- How Much Christian -- Old Age -- Down-To-Earth Talk (1956) -- Without Offerings -- Let Us -- A Few Lines -- Soon -- The Joy of the Yiddish Word (1961) -- The Joy of the Yiddish Word -- Steal Into the Prayerbook -- A Jew From Lublin (1966) -- In the Morning -- My Grandchild-Generation -- I Shall Remember -- J. L. Teller (1912-1972) -- Symbols (1930) -- Evening Motif -- Miniatures (1934) -- Rock -- Ruins -- On the Road -- Winter Evening -- City Highway -- Etude -- Landscape -- Animal Mood -- Woman in Rain -- Desire -- Wild Song -- Late Evening -- The Knight Sings -- Sharp Hour -- Poems of the Age (1940) -- Psychoanalysis -- Jud Suss Oppenheimer on His First Visit with Professor Sigmund Freud -- Jud Suss Tells About Them and About Himself -- Letter to Sigmund Freud -- Sigmund Freud at the Age of Eighty-Two -- Wilhelm Stekel Gives up Life -- Three -- Deportation
To a Christian Woman -- Meditation at Stuyvesant Church -- Invasion -- Passport -- They March In -- Trial -- Landscape with Military -- Behind the Front -- Idyll -- Landscape with War -- A Child Sees -- Of Immigration -- 98 Fahrenheit -- Poem -- In a Minor Key -- Posthumous Poems (1972) -- New York Landscapes -- October -- Pantheism: 1968 -- New York in a Jewish Mood -- Switzerland 1938-1965 -- From Three Poems of Nightmare -- Flood -- Midnight -- Ruven Ludvig (1895-1926) -- Who Shot the Leprous Nigger -- Daisy McClellan -- Indian Motifs -- Steps in Sandy Trails -- Mexican Shacks on the Canal -- Old Levi -- The Last One -- B. Alquit (1896-1963) -- To My Brothers -- Us -- For One Moment Only -- Ladies -- Your Grass -- White Night -- On the Left -- Moyshe Nadir (1885-1943) -- Fists and Flags -- A Night in the Open Field -- A Chimney Sweep -- Display Windows of New York -- Opportunity -- One of 365 Days: New York, Winter, 1932 -- In the Library (In the Department of Old Classics) -- Menke Katz (1906-1991) -- Three Sisters (1932) -- So Many V's Burning Vis-a-Vis -- The First Sister -- Dawning Man (1935) -- Dusk -- Night -- Zushe in the Smithy of the Worker-Poet -- The Lynching Crow (Fragments) -- Burning Town (1938) -- Burning Town (Fragments) -- Dawn -- The Simple Dream (1947) -- On Bicycles Through Central Park: Triolets -- At Dawn -- Evening-Bread -- Midday (1954) -- Yiddish -- May in Mikhalishek and in Svintsyan -- Tsfat (1979) -- The Tiny Land -- It Was Good, Oh Tsfat, It Was Good -- Menke Sonnets -- Clouds Over Tsfat -- Children of Tsfat -- In the Lucid Land -- Against Lock and Rhyme -- To a Butterfly -- Narrative Poetry -- I. Y. Shvarts (1885-1971) -- Kentucky (1925) -- After the Civil War -- A Night of Dreams -- Daybreak -- The End of the Pack -- In the New Land of Canaan -- Neighbors -- Joshua -- Women Poets -- Anna Margolin (1887-1952) -- Once I Was a Slender Youth -- Mother Earth, Sun-Washed, Trodden by Many -- Years -- My Race Speaks -- Eyes Half-Closed -- Slowly and Shining -- You -- In Copper and in Gold -- Poem -- You Kissed My Hand -- Ghosts Whistled Sadly in the Dark -- Beautiful Words of Marble and Gold -- Snow -- Brisk -- The Masquerade Is Over -- Ruven Ludvig -- Marie -- What Do You Want, Marie? -- Marie's Prayer -- Marie and the Priest -- Marie and the Visitors -- Marie Wants to Be a Beggar -- Marie and Death -- On a Balcony -- My Venus Wears Silken Slippers -- Forgotten Gods -- Her Smile -- Tsilya Drapkin (1888-1956) -- In the Hot Wind (1937) -- Adam -- You Plowed Open -- My Mother -- The Circus Lady -- If Only I Could See -- I Am Drowned -- Do You Recognize Me -- To Lucifer -- In the Dirt of Your Suspicion -- I Fall to the Ground -- An Evening in March -- White as the Snow -- Through Night and Rain -- Malka Heyfets-Tussman (1896-1987) -- Poems (1949) -- With Teeth in Earth -- Her Oak -- Mild My Wild (1958) -- Slavery -- Earthquake -- Leaves Do Not Fall (1972) -- Saw You Among Trees -- Thunder My Brother -- Under Your Sign (1974) -- Widowhood -- Desert Wind -- Cellars and Attics -- Now Is Ever (1977) -- Out Of and Back In -- Sweet Father -- Forgotten -- In Spite -- Dream -- Keep Me -- Out and In Again -- And I Smile (1983) -- My Persecutor -- Homeless -- Faker -- Songs / Yiddish Poets -- / Elyokum Tsunser -- Paper Is White -- / Zalman Shneur -- Daisies -- / Moyshe Nadir -- The Rebbe Elimelekh -- / Avrom Reyzen -- To My Hammer -- Say, What Does It Mean?... -- Wild and Wilder, Wicked Winds -- / Dovid Edelshtat -- In Strife -- My Testament -- Wake Up! -- To the Working Women -- List of Poets.

Call Number

PJ5191.E3

ISBN

0804751838
9780804751834

LCCN

2006024109
9780804751834

OCLC

70676587

Title

Sing, stranger : a century of American Yiddish poetry : a historical anthology / edited by Benjamin Harshav ; translated by Benjamin Harshav and Barbara Harshav.

Publisher

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2006.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Americans

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Contributor biographical information

Added Author

Harshav, Benjamin, 1928-2015, editor, translator.

Harshav, Barbara, 1940- translator.

Rosenfeld, Morris, 1862-1923, author.

Edelstadt, David, 1866-1892, author.

Bovshover, Joseph, 1873-1915, author.

Yehoash, -1927, author.

Mani Leib, 1883-1953, author.

Rolnick, Joseph, 1879-1955, author.

Iceland, Reuben, 1884-1955, author.

Vladeck, B. (Baruch), 1886-1938, author.

Landau, Zishe, 1889-1937, author.

Reisen, Abraham, 1876-1953, author.

Leivick, H., 1888-1962, author.

Halpern, Moshe Leib, 1886-1932, author.

Weinstein, Berish, 1905-1967, author.

Glanz-Leyeless, A. (Aaron), 1889-1966, author.

Glatstein, Jacob, 1896-1971, author.

Teller, Judd L., 1912-1972, author.

Ludwig, Reuben, 1895-1926, author.

Nadir, Moishe, 1885-1943, author.

Katz, Menke, 1906-1991, author.

Schwartz, Israel Jacob, 1885-1971, author.

Margolin, Anna, author.

Dropkin, Celia, 1888-1956, author.

Tussman, Malka Heifetz, 1896-1987, author.

Zunser, Eliakum, 1836-1913, author.

Shneour, Zalman, 1887-1959, author.

Other Form:

Online version: Sing, stranger. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006 (OCoLC)607817591

Other Standard Identifier

9780804751834

Research Call Number

Desk-JWS PJ5191.E3 S56 2006

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