Songs in Dark Times - Yiddish Poetry of Struggle From Scottsboro to Palestine

Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftists reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth-Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicans-in Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective trauma but embracing a global community of the oppressed.

About the author

Amelia M. Glaser is Associate Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego, and an award-winning translator. She is author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands and has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Jewish Quarterly, and Times Literary Supplement. Her translations have been featured on LitHub and on NPR’s The World.

Summary

Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftists reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth—Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicans—in Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective trauma but embracing a global community of the oppressed.

Product details

• Authors: Amelia Glaser, Amelia M Glaser, Amelia M. Glaser, Glaser Amelia M.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780674248458
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24845-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; POETRY / General, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / World, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, General & world history, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: general, Jewish, General and world history, Translation and interpretation