Kabbalistic Yiddish : Aaron Zeitlin's mystical-messianic poetics / by Nathan Wolski ; with a foreword by Yitskhok Niborski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolski, Nathan, author, translator.

Series:

Meḳorot u-meḥḳarim be-sifrut ha-ḳabalah ; sefer 66.

Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism ; 66

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Zeitlin, Aaron, 1898-1973--Criticism and interpretation.

Zeitlin, Aaron.

Zeitlin, Aaron, 1898-1973.

Yiddish poetry--20th century.

Yiddish poetry.

Cabala--Poetry.

Cabala.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

365 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Cherub Press, 2020.

Language Note:

Annotations, translations and criticial material in English, poems and foreword in Yiddish with Hebrew script.

Summary:

This study presents annotated translations and analyses of Aaron Zeitlin's (1898-1973) "neo-kabbalistic" Yiddish poems written during the 1920s in Warsaw. Fusing deep zoharic knowledge with Yiddish avant-garde/modernist poetic form, Zeitlin's "cosmic poetry" represents a unique moment both in the history of Kabbalah and in the history of Yiddish literature. Metatron (a book length poem), Keter, and Yosef della Reina reveal a deep mythopoetic imagination writing at the intersection of messianism and mysticism. With a Yiddish foreword by Yitskhok Niborski.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Zeitlin, Aaron, 1898-1973. Poems. Selections.

Zeitlin, Aaron, 1898-1973. Poems. Selections. English.

ISBN:

1933379855

9781933379852

OCLC:

1226755625