Kathryn Hellerstein

A Question of Tradition

Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987

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Produktbeschreibung

Kathryn Hellerstein teaches Yiddish as associate professor in the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky and Jewish American Literature: a Norton Anthology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 823g
• ISBN-13: 9780804756228
• ISBN-10: 0804756228
• Artikelnr.: 39339251

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Hellerstein teaches Yiddish as associate professor in the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky and Jewish American Literature: a Norton Anthology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Idea of a Literary Tradition
2. Old Poems in a Modern Anthology
3. Revolution, Prayers, and Sisterhood in Interwar Poland
4. The Folk and the Book: Miriam Ulinover and Roza Yakubovitsh
5. The Art of Sex: Celia Dropkin and Anna Margolin
6. Prayer-Poems against History: Kadya Molodowsky and Malka Heifetz Tussman
Conclusion