Research Catalog

Title

Yiddish literature in America, 1870-2000 / selected, edited, and with an introduction by Emanuel S. Goldsmith ; translated by Barnett Zumoff [et al.].

Publication

Jersey City, N.J. : Ktav : Congress for Jewish Culture, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goldsmith, Emanuel S., 1935-
• Zumoff, Barnett.

Description

xx, 380 pages; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Yidishe liṭeraṭur in Ameriḳe 1870-2000. Selections. English

Subjects

• Literary collections
• Jews > United States > Literary collections
• Yiddish poetry > United States
• Yiddish literature > United States

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Literary collections.

Note

• "This English abridgement of ... contains approximately one-fourth of the content of the original two-volume Yiddish text published by the Congress for Jewish Culture in 1999 and 2002"-Pref.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface / by Emanuel S. Goldsmith -- Introduction: American Yiddish literature and Jewish continuity / by Emanuel S. Goldsmith -- In battle ; Wake up! ; My will / Edelshtat, Dovid -- Return to Zion / Tsunzer, Elyokum -- A song to the people / Bovshoverm, Yoysef -- Old Nekhama / Sharkanski, Avrom Mikhl -- I go to visit the Belzer Rebbe /Kahan, Ab -- Three sisters /Vintshevski, Moris -- Mirele Efros / Gordin, Yankey -- A march of exile ; Kaddish ; My little boy ; My resting-place ; In the Catskill mountains / Rozenfeld, Moris -- Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) The four questions of an American boy ; The parting of the Reed Sea / Aleichem, Sholem -- What is assimilation? / Zhitlovski, Khayim -- Yiddish / Lyesin. Avrom -- The beginning of Yiddish literature in America / Marmor, Kalmen -- Our song ; Yiddish ; A man ; I envy them ; The prayer ; From home ; I and the world ; Ordinary Jewish Girls ; A little negro boy ; When I kindle the Khanike light / Reyzn, Avrom --^
• A song for the Sabbath day ; Folk-Motif ; A kiss for mother ; Marjorie / Yehoyesh -- Eyes / Ash, Sholem -- So much Sorrow ; The song of the small letter / Royzenblat, H. -- Serenade ; On the ocean shore ; Koralnik, Avrom -- As If before my eyes ; From our love no offspring remains / Rolnik, Yorsef -- 'Literature' and 'Writings' / Ignatov, Dovid -- We are both old ; Still-lifes ; To Zisho Landoy ; Twenty-five Years later / Ayzland, Rovn -- Yiddish in America / Slonim, Yoyel -- I'm the man of song ; Until ; For our destroyed Jewish life / Landoy, Zisho -- Mother earth ; Full of night and weeping / Margolin, Ana -- Our song is not of today ; Our word / Dilon, Avrom Moyshe -- We'll stay inlshul /Eynhom, Dovid -- The Torah lad / Byalostotski, Binyomen Yankey -- A song to America / Shneyer, Zalmen -- Word sounds / Shapiro, Lamed -- My mother ; To a Young poetess ; For a game / Drapkin, Tsilye --^
• New York ; Cities ; My uncle Itsik ; My uncle's house ; My uncle Goes away ; My uncle comes back / Nadir, Moyshe -- Stiller, stiller ; A sonnet ; Dove-silent ; Great loneliness ; To the gentile poet . ; Rhyme, ; Yiddish / Leyb, Mani -- Out west / Raboy, Ayzik -- Memento Mori ; Our Garden ; Zlotshev, my home ; Women / Halpern, Moyshe-Leyb -- Somewhere far away ; Stars ; New York in beauty ; A poem about myself ; Mima'amakim ; Forever ; Lay your head / Leyvik, H. -- There;s a story going around ; A prayer / Boreysho, Menakhem -- Judaism ; President Smith / Opatoshu, Yoysef -- I love the earth ; Kentucky) ; Parting ; Bronx ; Legacy / Yankey, Yisroel -- How many persons make a people ; A poem about writing ; A mother frog ; A good poem / Lutski, A. -- For You, poetry ; On Your soil, America / Vaynshteyn, Berish -- On the day of judgment ; Y.L Perets / Ravitsh, Melekh -- Bilingualism / Niger, Shmuel -- Women's songs ; What if ; The evening sky ; The song of Sabbath / Molodovsky, Kadye --^
• It's precisely America that is making Yiddish literature Jewish / Rivkin, Borukh -- New-old song ; The wisdom of Yiddish / Sigal, Yankev Yitskhok -- The Madonna in the subway ; To you, Yiddish poets :' ; Seward park ; Ecstasy / Glants-Leyeles, Arn -- Peretz in America / Borekh Minkiov, Nokhem Borekh -- My brother Benjamin ; Good night, world ; Without Jews / Glatshteyn, Yankev -- Cemetery on Chatham Square ; Yosl Klezmer / Gros, Naftoli -- Hear how the grasses grow ; For the choir-master / Yunin, Volf -- Old-Fashioned words to the astronauts ; A guest on Second Avenue / Grinberg, Eliezer -- To creative maturity / Oyerbakh, Efrayim -- Tradition and revolt in Yiddish poetry / Tabatshnik, Avrom -- Yiddish poem / Tabatshnik, Avrom -- Yegor / Zinger, Yisroel Yehoyshua -- The song of my family ; New York through the Jewish soul / Teler, Yehuda Leyb -- 0 Friends of mine in big noisy New York ; Sunset in the city / Bomze, Nokhem --^
• Song of the good deed ; The Jew in me weeps ; Faith ; Cosmic "No" ; The secret: man ; The mystery of Yiddish / Tseytlin, Am -- Chicago ; Hallelujah / Shvarts, Shloyme -- Since yesterday ; The song of the golden peacock ; On the road stands a tree / Manger, Itsik -- The last road ; People, my people ; Abel and Cain ; Martyrs / Teytlboym, Dora -- Colorado ; In the synagogue / Grade, Khayim -- And always when the sun goes down ; My story is your story ; Ibn Dagan of Andalusia ; Small autumn squares ; In Times Square ; The knife ; What wall ; The kind hand / Zhikhlinski, Reyzl -- A letter to my son at war-1945 ; Like an Esrog ; Breakfast ; But I can't sing / Kheyfets-Thzman, Malke -- On the other side of the poem ; You ; I'd like to see your mother one day / Korn, Rokhl -- First letter to Abrasha / Rozenfarb, Khava -- My Home, New York ; Rock-and-roll music / Shekhter-Gotesman, Beyle -- All my paths ; The Forest / Borovik, Leyb -- The closed door ; Quite simply / Fayn, Yoni --^
• The psychic journey / Zinger, Yitskhok Bashevis.

ISBN

• 9781602801332
• 1602801339

LCCN

^^2009033977

OCLC

• 432443924
• SCSB-12149639

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library