%0 Book
%T Songs in dark times: Yiddish poetry of struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine
%A Glaser, Amelia
%D 2020
%I Harvard University Press
%C Cambridge, Massachusetts
%@ 9780674248458
%G English
%F 1700700049
%O Amelia M. Glaser
%O Includes index
%O In English; poems in Yiddish with English translations
%X 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 pasarán: 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.
%L 839/.11309
%K Yiddish poetry
%K Social aspects
%K History
%K Poets, Yiddish
%K Political and social views
%K Jews
%K Intellectual life
%K Communist literature
%9 Text