Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry--A Historical Anthology

by Benjamin Harshav

Book Overview

Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. Here are the Proletarian or "sweat-shop" poets, sympathizing with Socialist Anarchists, who were highly popular with Yiddish audiences at the end of the nineteenth century; the lyrical moods and ironies of the "Young Generation" at the beginning of the twentieth century; the sophisticated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804751838
• ISBN13: 9780804751834
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 760 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.4" x 10.1"