From Our Springtime: Literary Memoirs and Portraits of Yiddish New York (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art)
Marcus's translation is a critical contribution to our appreciation of New York as a global, multilingual literary center in the first decades of the twentieth century, and of ways in which Yiddish writers contributed to the multicultural expansion of American letters. --Justin Cammy, Smith CollegeGerald Marcus has done us a great favor in his fine translation of Reuben Iceland, a most important figure in the American Yiddish literary world for decades --Jules Chametzky, coeditor of Jewish American Literature: A Norton AnthologyReuben Iceland was one of the leaders of Die Yunge, a literary movement that was centered in New Yorkat the turn of the twentieth century. Die Yunge wanted to purify Yiddish and make it a literary language witha stature equal to that of other western languages....Gerald Marcus gives the reader a clear, compelling translation of a passionate man surrounded by talents perhaps greater than his, who treated all his fellow poets like family....This memoir is a significant source for research on Yiddish literature in America. --Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews