@Book{1700700049, author="Glaser, Amelia", title="Songs in dark times: Yiddish poetry of struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine", year="2020", publisher="Harvard University Press", address="Cambridge, Massachusetts", keywords="Yiddish poetry; Social aspects; History; Poets, Yiddish; Political and social views; Jews; Intellectual life; Communist literature", abstract="Preface: The age of optimists -- Introduction: Passwords -- Yiddish poetry in the age of internationalism -- From the Yangtse to the Black Sea: Esther Shumiatsher's travels -- Angry winds: Jewish leftists and the challenge of Palestine -- Scottsboro cross: translating pogroms to lynchings -- No pasar{\'a}n: Jewish collective memory in the Spanish Civil War -- My songs, My dumas: rewriting Ukraine -- Teshuvah: Moyshe Nadir's relocated passwords -- Afterword: Kaddish -- mourning words after the Second World War.", note="Amelia M. Glaser", note="Includes index", note="In English; poems in Yiddish with English translations", isbn="9780674248458", language="English" }