| Description |
vi, 332 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Founding fathers: I.L. Peretz, Advice to the estranged -- Hope and fear -- What our literature needs -- Baa̕l Makhshoves, Mendele, grandfather of Yiddish literature -- Shmuel Niger, The humor of Sholom Aleichem -- Jacob Glatstein, Peretz and the Jewish nineteenth century -- 2. Eastern European scene: Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Eastern European era in Jewish history -- Abraham Ain, Swislocz: portrait of a shtetl -- Hayim Zhitlowsky, The Jewish factor in my socialism -- 3. A few central themes and figures: Jeheil Isaiah Trunk, Jacob and Esau -- Hayim Greenberg, Sabbatai Zevi -the Messiah as apostate -- Israel Zinberg, The Jewish Enlightenment in Germany -- Hayim Zhitlowsky, Moses Hess -socialist, philosopher, Jew -- Abraham Koralnik, Josephus and Simon -- 4. Jewishness in America: beginnings: I. Kopeloff, First days in America -- Abraham Menes, The east Side and the Jewish Labor Movement -- C. Bezalel Sherman, Nationalism, secularism and religion in the Jewish Labor Movement -- Hayim Greenberg, Notes on the melting pot -- 5. Holocaust: Emmanuel Ringelblum, In the Warsaw ghetto -- Michael Zylberberg, A Warsaw diary -- Hayim Greenberg, Golus-Jew -- 6. Yiddish: language and literature: Max Weinreich, Internal bilingualism in Ashkenaz -- A. Tabachnik, Tradition and revolt in Yiddish poetry -- Reuben Iceland, At Goodman and Levine's -- Joseph Opatashu, Yiddish literature in the United States -- Jacob Sternberg, Words, language, style -- Abraham Koralnik, Without Mazl. |
| Subject |
Yiddish literature -- History and criticism.
|
|
Yiddish literature. |
|
Jews -- Europe, Eastern.
|
|
Jews. |
|
Eastern Europe. |
| Added Author |
Greenberg, Eliezer, 1896-1977.
|
| ISBN |
0472464272 |
|
9780472464272 |
|
