An Anthology Of Modern Yiddish Poetry (Revised And Enlarged); Author: Translator Whitman, Ruth; Editor: Whitman, Ruth; English;Yiddish; Paperback

Author: Translator Whitman, Ruth; Editor: Whitman, Ruth
Edition #3 ~ Revised And Enl Edition; Paperback
200 pages
Published: January 1995
Wayne State University Press
Language: English;Yiddish
ISBN: 0814325335

Originally published in 1966, this book was the first bilingual anthology to feature the rich, spirited, and passionate Yiddish poetry of the twentieth century. With a new preface and a revised introduction that provides a short history of the development of Yiddish poetry, the third edition of An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry presents seventy-two poems in their original Yiddish and in English translation. Twenty new poems are included in this edition.This third edition of this anthology of modern Yiddish poetry has been enhanced with the addition of 20 new poems, a new preface, and a revised introduction on the history of the development of Yiddish poetry. The poems are presented both in the original Yiddish and in English translation.