American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Benjamin & Barbara Harshav bilingual Focusing on Cracow’s Jewish quarter

Focusing on Cracow’s Jewish quarter

Hampus Melin: drums

Jake Shulman-Ment with guest vocalists Sarah Gordon

but in the nineteenth century

and whistled while waiting for the bus – taken in total they comprise the vast majority of what is now commonly referred to as “The American Songbook

American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Benjamin & Barbara Harshav bilingual Focusing on Cracow’s Jewish quarterBilingual Yiddish English text This remarkable volume introduces to the large English speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth century American literature not written in English. The range of American Yiddish Poetry runs the gamut from individualistic verse of alienation in the modern metropolis, responses to Western culture and ideologies, and experiments with poetic form and the resources of the Yiddish language, to