Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry--A Historical Anthology

Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. This anthology reveals both an amazing achievement of Jewish creative work and an important body of American poetry.

Author: Benjamin Harshav
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 09/20/2006
Pages: 760
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.22lbs
Size: 10.06h x 7.36w x 1.88d
ISBN: 9780804751834

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 271

About the Author
Benjamin Harshav is Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Among his many books are The Meaning of Yiddish (1986; Stanford University Press paperback, 1999), Language in Time of Revolution (1993; Stanford University Press paperback, 1999), Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative (Stanford University Press, 2003), and Marc Chagall on Art and Culture (Stanford University Press, 2003).