An anthology of modern Yiddish poetry : bilingual edition / selected and translated by Ruth Whitman.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Whitman, Ruth, 1922-1999.

Language:

• English
• Yiddish

Subjects (All):

• Yiddish poetry--Translations into English.
• Yiddish poetry.

Physical Description:

213 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Third edition, revised and enlarged.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

Yiddish and English on facing pages.

Summary:

Originally published in 1966, this book was the first bilingual anthology to feature the rich, spirited, and passionate Yiddish poetry of the twentieth century. With a new preface and a revised introduction that provides a short history of the development of Yiddish poetry, the third edition of An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry presents seventy-two poems in their original Yiddish and in English translation. Twenty new poems are included in this edition.

ISBN:

0814325335

OCLC:

30915847