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Poets who wrote, or write, much or all of their poetry in the Yiddish language include: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Three books of his poetry were published. The first was Knoytn [6] (Candlewicks) in 1927; [7] The second, Unter der last [8] (Under the Yoke), in 1936, [9] and the third, Lider fun a midbarnik [10] (Songs of a Hermit) in 1954 [11] for which The Jewish Book Council gave him The Harry Kovner Award as the best collection of Yiddish poetry of the ...
Most of her poetry was written there. [2] Margolin was associated with both the Di Yunge and ‘introspectivist’ groups in the Yiddish poetry scene at the time, but her poetry is uniquely her own. [3] In her early years in New York City Margolin joined the editorial staff of the liberal Yiddish daily Der Tog (The Day; founded 1914). Under her ...
Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language And Culture in All Its Moods. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005). ISBN 0-312-30741-1; Wisse, Ruth. A Little Love in Big Manhattan: Two Yiddish Poets (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988) ISBN 0-674-53659-2 “Yiddish literature.” Written by Ken Frieden. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia ...
Solomon Blumgarten (Yiddish: שלמה בלומגאַרטען) (16 September 1872 – 10 January 1927), known by his pen name Yehoash (יהואַש), was a Yiddish poet, scholar, and translator. Yehoash was "generally recognized by those familiar with [Yiddish] literature, as its greatest living poet and one of its most skillful raconteurs ...
Aliza Greenblatt (Yiddish: עליזה גרינבלאַט; September 8, 1888 – September 21, 1975) was an American Yiddish poet.Many of her poems, which were widely published in the Yiddish press, were also set to music and recorded by composers including Abraham Ellstein, Solomon Golub, and Esther Zweig. [1]
The Museum of the Yiddish Theatre writes that The Golem was "an overwhelming success everywhere." [3]According to the 1963 Lexicon of Yiddish Literature, "People read and re-read [The Golem], debated and wrote about the problems of the book: World liberation and Jewish redemption, the role of matter and the role of the spirit in the process of redemption, the Jewish Messiah and the Christian ...
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern (Yiddish: משה-לײב האַלפּערן) (January 2, 1886 – August 31, 1932) was a Yiddish-language modernist poet. He was born and raised in a traditional Jewish household in Zlotshev, Galicia and brought to Vienna at the age of 12 in 1898 to study commercial art. He then began writing modernist poetry in German. [1]