Songs To a Moonstruck Lady: Women in Yiddish Poetry
by Barnett Zumoff
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Poetry. Women's Studies. Jewish Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Yiddish by Barnett Zumoff. Yiddish poetry constitutes one of the great canons of world literature, in which women play a major role. Unfortunately, Yiddish poetry in all of its range and brilliance is largely lost to the general reading public because of the language barrier. In this bilingual volume Barnett Zumoff has created and presented masterly translations of Yiddish poems by the best of the women poets and show more Yiddish poems about women by a broad range of the great male poets. Readers of this voume will obtain a striking picture of a magnificent slice of world literature and experience the emotional impact of great poetry. show lessTags
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- Dauber, Jeremy; Hertzberg, Dr. (Rabbi) (Rabbi)
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- Fiction and Literature, Poetry
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- 839.113080352 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Yiddish literature Poetry 1860–1945
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- PJ5191 .E3 .S66 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Hebrew Other languages used by Jews Yiddish
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