Proletpen : America's rebel Yiddish poets /

This anthology translates little-known Yiddish poetry by American Yiddish proletarian writers who identified with the American Left from the 1920s to the early 1950s. Dovid Katz explains how a McCarthy-era ""American Yiddish Political Correctness"" wrote these leftist poets out o...

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Other Authors: Glaser, Amelia, Weintraub, David, 1958-, Craft, Dana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Yiddish
Published: Madison, Wis. : [Coral Gables, Fla.] : University of Wisconsin Press ; Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, ©2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • The days of proletpen in American Yiddish poetry / Dovid Katz
  • Urban landscape
  • Being a "greener"
  • Sons of the shop
  • Speaking of Scottsboro
  • Encounters with the elements
  • United in struggle
  • Matters of the heart
  • The poet on poetry
  • Wars to end all wars
  • Matters of life and death.