Songs to a moonstruck lady : women in Yiddish poetry / selected and translated by Barnett Zumoff ; with an introductory essay by Emanuel S. Goldsmith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zumoff, Barnett.

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Women--Poetry.

Women.

Yiddish poetry.

Yiddish poetry--20th century--Translations into English.

Yiddish poetry--20th century.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiv, 354 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : TSAR Publication in association with the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, [2005]

Contents:

About Mother

On The Doorsteps Mothers Weep / Soreh Birnbaum 2

My Mother / Tsilye Dropkin 4

My Mother / Khayim Grade 6

How Did You Get So Smart, Mama / Malka Heifetz-Tussman 8

Your Mother / Kehos Kliger 10

My Mother / Mani Leyb 12

My Mother's Secret / Peretz Miransky 14

My Mother / Peretz Miransky 18

My Mother's Lament / Yosl Mlotek 20

My Mother / Yoysef Rolnik 24

A Letter To Your Mother / Shloyme Shmulewitz 26

I'm Becoming My Mother / Masha Shtuker-Paiuk 30

Of Course My Mother / Esther Shumiatsher 32

When A Mother Dies / Rajzel Zychlinsky 34

My Mother's Shoes / Rajzel Zychlinsky 34

My Mother And The Oven / Rajzel Zychlinsky 34

Art and Artists

War Of Words / Shoshana Balaban-Wolkowitz 38

Pentimento / Rivka Basman Ben-Haim 40

Portrait / Rivka Basman Ben-Haim 40

The Model / Rivka Basman Ben-Haim 42

To A Woman Painter / Rivka Basman Ben-Haim 44

A Bit Of Green / Rivka Basman Ben-Haim 44

To A Young Poetess / Tsilye Dropkin 46

A Lady Violinist / Yisroel Emyot 48

Musical Caprice / Eliezer Greenberg 52

Tonight I Felt / Rokhl Korn 54

On The Other Side Of The Poem / Rokhl Korn 56

Biblical Themes

Leah / Yankev Adler 60

The Madonna In The Subway / Aaron Glants-Leyeles 64

Abishag / Yankev Glatshteyn 68

Rachel Goes To The Well For Water / Itsik Manger 72

The Ancient Witch Of Endor / Itsik Manger 76

Abishag Writes A Letter Home / Itsik Manger 80

Eve And The Apple Tree / Itsik Manger 82

Children

Elegy On The Death Of A Young Girl / Benyomen Yankev Bialostotski 88

Mischief-Making Boys / Shoshana Chenstokhovsky 90

I'll Run Away / Tsilye Dropkin 92

My Little Girl / Rivka Galin 94

Outgrowing My Dresses / Kehos Kliger 96

When The Day Begins / Berta Kling 98

The Little Girl / Leah Kopilowicz-Hoffman 100

Girlish Songs / Zisho Landoy 102

A Dark Cloth Coat / Kadya Molodowsky 104

My Daughter Of Sixteen Years / Melekh Ravitsh 110

What Shall I Bring You / Yitskhok Yankev Segal 112

Folk-Motif / Yehoyesh 114

A Kiss For Mother / Yehoyesh 116

Holocaust Figures

A Time For Dreams / Avrom Sutzkever 120

Golda / Avrom Sutzkever 122

The Teacher Mira / Avrom Sutzkever 126

Nature

Spring / Tsilye Dropkin 132

The Sun And I / Rokhl Fishman 134

Surround Me With Sea / Rokhl Fishman 134

To The Sun / Pessi Hirschfeld-Pomerantz 136

Mother Earth / Ana Margolin 138

The Golden Peacock / Ana Margolin 138

The Bird Of Paradise / Kadia Molodowsky 140

They're Threshing Rye / Dora Teitelboim 142

Snow / Rashel Veprinski 144

The Grass Is Tired In September / Rajzel Zychlinsky 146

Around The Lake / Rajzel Zychlinsky 146

The Wind Gave Birth To Me / Rajzel Zychlinsky 148

Poetic Musings

The Lady In Mourning / A. Almi 152

Ballad Of Three Women Near The East River / Benyomen Yankev Bialostotski 154

At Night / Gella Schweid Fishman 156

My Pa / Gella Schweid Fishman 158

Three Young Girls / Yankev Glatshteyn 162

My Song To A Sorrowful Maiden / Yankev Glatshteyn 166

Leytsie / Beyle Gottesman-Schaechter 168

By The Elevated Train / Beyle Gottesman-Schaechter 170

The Widow / Khayim Grade 172

Women / Moyshe-Leyb Halpern 174

In A Speakeasy-The Flower-Girl / Moyshe-Leyb Halpern 176

In The Streets Of The City / Moyshe-Leyb Halpern 180

Morning In The Village / Rokhl Korn 182

My Sweet Grandma / Moyshe Kulbak 184

To A Lady In A Big Hat / Zisho Landoy 186

The Shopgirl / Avrom Liessin 188

To A Woman Socialist / Avrom Raisen 190

A Young Woman With Gray Hair / Avrom Raisen 190

Just Plain Jewish Girls / Avrom Raisen 192

From Our Love No Offspring Remains / Yoysef Rolnik 194

On The Ocean Shore / Fradl Shtok 196

In The Tuileries / Dora Teitelboim 188

Estrangement / Dora Teitelboim 200

A Streetwalker / Aaron Tseytlin 202

Antiques / Miriam Ulinover 204

Malke My Darling / Mark Varshavski 206

Three Sisters / Morris Vintshevski 208

The Old-Age Home / Rajzel Zychlinsky 210

The Image Of A Stranger / Rajzel Zychlinsky 210

Pregnancy

Pregnancy / Pessi Hirschfeld-Pomerantz 214

I Love / Mani Leyb 216

When Pregnant Women Weep At Night / Melekh Ravitsh 218

If I Were To Give Birth To Children / Rashel Veprinski 220

From My Slender Limbs / Rashel Veprinski 222

Religious Themes

My Mother, Of Blessed Memory / Khayim Nakhman Bialik 226

The Maid Of Ludmir / Yankev Glatshteyn 230

Since I Don't Know How / Berta Kling 234

The Agunah / Avrom Liessin 236

What If / Kadia Molodowsky 240

Crumbling Pages / Kadia Molodowsky 244

Old Nekhama / Avrom Mikhl Sharkansky 246

When Grandma Comes To Me In Dreams / Fradl Shtok 248

The Sabbath Candles / Miriam Ulinover 250

The Challahs / Miriam Ulinover 250

My God / Rashel Veprinski 252

Grandma's Prayer / Hinda Zaretsky 254

What Wall / Rajzel Zychlinsky 256

The Kind Hand / Rajzel Zychlinsky 256

A Passage From The Bible / Rajzel Zychlinsky 258

Romantic Love

Girls / A.L. Baron 262

Meanwhile / Soreh Birnbaum 264

I Am Drowned / Tsilye Dropkin 266

I Haven't Seen You Yet / Tsilye Dropkin 266

You Debase MeToday / Tsilye Dropkin 268

Adam / Tsilye Dropkin 268

A Shadow Of Your Dress / Dovid Eynhorn 270

It's Not Your Beauty / Shmuel Halkin 272

Stop / Malka Heifetz-Tussman 274

Simple / Malka Heifetz-Tussman 276

Your Lips / Pessi Hirschfeld-Pomerantz 278

And / Berta Kling 280

You / Rokhl Korn 282

We Went Through Days / Ana Margolin 284

Full Of Night And Weeping / Ana Margolin 284

I Want, O Angry And Gentle One / Ana Margolin 286

A Girl's Song / Ana Margolin 288

The Ballad Of Marilyn / Meyer Shtiker 290

Serenade / Fradl Shtok 294

My Gardener / Esther Siegel 296

Last Love / Avrom Sutzkever 298

Epitaph / Avrom Sutzkever 298

Songs To A Moonstruck Lady / Avrom Sutzkever 300

Of All Your Speech / Dora Teitelboim 302

I Love / Dora Teitelboim 302

I Don't Know Why / Rashel Veprinski 306

Willy-Nilly / Rashel Veprinski 306

Eyes / Yehoyesh 308

Marjorie / Yehoyesh 310

On The Sleigh / Yehoyesh 312

Women's Inner Emotions

I Am A Circus Lady / Tsilye Dropkin 318

Grasp The Jolly Jug / Rokhl Fishman 320

An Old Woman / Aaron Glants-Leyeles 322

My Blood / Shifra Kholodenko 326

Sister Of Mine / Berta Kling 328

If Life / Berta Kling 328

Women's Songs / Kadia Molodowsky 330

I Get Up / Dora Teitelboim 336

I'll Hug My Shoulders / Rashel Veprinski 338

My Story Is Your Story / Rajzel Zychlinsky 340

Yiddish

Scorched Bees / Rivka Basman Ben-Haim 344

Wives Of Yiddish Poets / Khayim Leyb Fuks 346

The Yiddish Words From Your Mouth / Polia Shapiro 348.

ISBN:

1894770277 :

OCLC:

61427492

Publisher Number:

9781894770279