Proletpen : America's rebel Yiddish poets / edited by Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub ; translated by Amelia Glaser ; with illustrations by Dana Craft ; special editorial assistance from Yankl Salant
The days of proletpen in American Yiddish poetry / Dovid Katz -- Urban landscape -- Being a "greener" -- Sons of the shop -- Speaking of Scottsboro -- Encounters with the elements -- United in struggle -- Matters of the heart -- The poet on poetry -- Wars to end all wars -- Matters of life and death
Summary
This anthology translates little-known Yiddish poetry by American Yiddish proletarian writers who identified with the American Left from the 1920s to the early 1950s. Dovid Katz explains how a McCarthy-era ""American Yiddish Political Correctness"" wrote these leftist poets out of the canon. Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub correct this erasure
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-409)
Notes
Text in English; poems in Yiddish with English translation
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