A treasury of Yiddish poetry
TitreA treasury of Yiddish poetry
Call number839.091308/0001
N° d'objet04540
Lieu de publicationNew York, New York, United States
EditeurSchocken Books
Année de publication
1976
Pagination378 p., index
MatérielLivre
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.