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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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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