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Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry (Michigan Studies In Comparative Jewish Cultures)
For centuries, poets have turned to translation for creative inspiration. Through and in translation, poets have introduced new poetic styles, languages, and forms into their own writing, sometimes changing the course of literary history in the process. Strange Cocktail is the first comprehensive st... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores: Poems by Anne Kleiman and Annabelle Farmelant
Although Anne (Chana) Kleiman--who died in 2011 at the age of 101--was the first American-born Jewish woman to publish poems in Hebrew, and Annabelle (Chana) Farmelant--who is still living and occasionally publishing--wrote a substantial body of Hebrew verse from the 1940s to the 1960s, their work i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture
by Dara Horn • Jeffrey Shandler • Jeremy Dauber • Josh Lambert • Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett • Kalman Weiser • Hasia Diner • Ari Y. Kelman • Tony Michels • Gennady Estraikh • Sarah Bunin Benor • Anita Norich • Rebecca Margolis • Zehavit Stern • Asya Vaisman • Shiri Goren • Lara Rabinovitch • Gerben Zaagsma • Edward Portnoy • Jennifer Young • Ela Bauer • Shachar Pinsker • Shayn Smulyan • Adriana X. Jacobs • Barbara Mann • Jordan Finkin • Rebecca Kobrin • Hannah S. Pressman • Anna ShternshisYiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth-century "Hasidic Slasher," obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture. Editors Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah S... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013