Songs in Dark Times : : Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine / / Amelia M. Glaser.
A probing reading of leftist Jewish poets who, during the interwar period, drew on the trauma of pogroms to depict the suffering of other marginalized peoples.Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth—Palestinian Arabs, African A...
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Glaser, Amelia M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Songs in Dark Times : Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine / Amelia M. Glaser. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (304 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE: The Optimists -- INTRODUCTION: Yiddish Passwords in the Age of Internationalism -- 1 FROM THE YANGTZE TO THE BLACK SEA: Esther Shumiatcher’s Travels -- 2 ANGRY WINDS: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine -- 3 SCOTTSBORO CROSS: Translating Pogroms to Lynchings -- 4 NOPASARÁN: Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War -- 5 MY SONGS, MY DUMAS: Rewriting Ukraine -- 6 TESHUVAH: Moishe Nadir’s Relocated Passwords -- AFTERWORD: Kaddish -- APPENDIX: Poems from the Age of Internationalism -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A probing reading of leftist Jewish poets who, during the interwar period, drew on the trauma of pogroms to depict the suffering of other marginalized peoples.Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth—Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicans—in Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective trauma but embracing a global community of the oppressed.The long 1930s, Amelia M. Glaser proposes, gave rise to a genre of internationalist modernism in which tropes of national collective memory were rewritten as the shared experiences of many national groups. The utopian Jews of Songs in Dark Times effectively globalized the pogroms in a bold and sometimes fraught literary move that asserted continuity with anti-Arab violence and black lynching. As communists and fellow travelers, the writers also sought to integrate particular experiences of suffering into a borderless narrative of class struggle. Glaser resurrects their poems from the pages of forgotten Yiddish communist periodicals, particularly the New York–based Morgn Frayhayt (Morning Freedom) and the Soviet literary journal Royte Velt (Red World). Alongside compelling analysis, Glaser includes her own translations of ten poems previously unavailable in English, including Malka Lee’s “God’s Black Lamb,” Moyshe Nadir’s “Closer,” and Esther Shumiatsher’s “At the Border of China.”These poets dreamed of a moment when “we” could mean “we workers” rather than “we Jews.” Songs in Dark Times takes on the beauty and difficulty of that dream, in the minds of Yiddish writers who sought to heal the world by translating pain. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Communist literature 20th century. Jews Intellectual life. Poets, Yiddish Political and social views History 20th century. Yiddish poetry Social aspects History 20th century. Yiddish poetry 20th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110690057 print 9780674248458 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674250451 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674250451 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674250451/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE: The Optimists -- INTRODUCTION: Yiddish Passwords in the Age of Internationalism -- 1 FROM THE YANGTZE TO THE BLACK SEA: Esther Shumiatcher’s Travels -- 2 ANGRY WINDS: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine -- 3 SCOTTSBORO CROSS: Translating Pogroms to Lynchings -- 4 NOPASARÁN: Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War -- 5 MY SONGS, MY DUMAS: Rewriting Ukraine -- 6 TESHUVAH: Moishe Nadir’s Relocated Passwords -- AFTERWORD: Kaddish -- APPENDIX: Poems from the Age of Internationalism -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX |
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