Proletpen
Subtitle: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets
Contributors: Amelia Glaser (Editor); David Weintraub (Editor); Dana Craft (Illustrator); Dovid Katz (Introduction)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: June 27, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780299208004
Subjects: Poetry anthologies: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American - General; European - German; Jewish - General; Poetry / Single Author / American; Jewish; 20th century; History and criticism; Translations into English; United States; Yiddish poetry
Description: "This unique anthology translates for the first time a little-known body of Yiddish poetry by American Yiddish proletarian writers who identified politically and poetically with the American Left from the 1920s to the early 1950s."--Jacket.