Barnett Zumoff

Yiddish Literature in America 1870-2000 (eBook, ePUB)

Volume 1
Redaktion: Goldsmith, Emanuel S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Between 1870 and 2000, the years covered by the present volume, Yiddish literature blossomed from its modest beginnings into a world literature that is the qualitative equal of any of the worlds great literatures. Poetry and prose poured out of dozens of great authors in a way rarely seen in previous literary history. Largely unknown to many readers, a large proportion, perhaps the majority of this Yiddish literature, was written in America rather than Europe. A proper, comprehensive anthology of the American Yiddish literature did not exist until Emanuel S. Goldsmith published, in 1999, his monumental two-volume, 1300-page anthology in the original Yiddish. The current English translation by Barnett Zumoff presents about one-fourth of this material so that the reader who does not know Yiddish can have the pleasure of sampling this great literature. Selections from great authors such as Sholem Aleichem, Moris Rozenfeld, Dovid Edelshtat, Avrom Reyzn, Sholem Ash, Yehoyesh, Ana Margolin, Tsilye Drapkin, Mani Leyb, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, Kadye Molodovsky, Rokhl Korn, H. Leyvik, Yankev Glatshteyn, Itsik Manger, Reyzl Zhikhlinsky, and Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger (Isaac Bashevis Singer) will delight the reader, and will hopefully stimulate him or her to delve further into the world of Yiddish literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514436547
• Artikelnr.: 52593817

Autorenporträt

Barnett Zumoff is an internationally renowned teacher and researcher in the field of endocrinology, who has published 250 papers in that field. He currently holds the title of professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. In addition to these accomplishments in the field of medicine, he has had a long and productive career in the field of Yiddish cultural activity. He was longtime president of the Forward Association and the Workmen's Circle and is currently president of the Congress for Jewish Culture and vice president of the Jewish National Theatre-Folksbiene. He has published twenty-one books of translation from Yiddish literature.