TY - BOOK AU - Glaser, Amelia PY - 2020 DA - 2020// TI - Songs in dark times: Yiddish poetry of struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine PB - Harvard University Press CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts KW - Yiddish poetry KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - Poets, Yiddish KW - Political and social views KW - Jews KW - Intellectual life KW - Communist literature AB - 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. SN - 9780674248458 LA - English N1 - Amelia M. Glaser ID - 1700700049 ER -