A treasury of Yiddish poetry
TitleA treasury of Yiddish poetry
Call number839.091308/0001
Object number04540
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherSchocken Books
Year of publication
1976
Physical description378 p., index
MaterialBook
ISBN0805205462
NotesIncludes a detailed introduction about the development of Yiddish poetry
Description
This translated anthology of Yiddish poetry reflects developments in Jewish life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes poems about shtetl life, young Russian revolutionaries, immigrants to America and despairing poems about the Holocaust.
