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Hardcover, $25.95
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Songs
To A Moonstruck Lady
Women
in Yiddish Poetry
Selected
and Translated by Barnett Zumoff
Women play
a major role in Yiddish poetry, both as brilliant creators themselves
and as beloved subjects of male poets: mothers, wives, daughters,
lovers, and historical and legendary figures. Unfortunately, Yiddish
poetry, in all of its range and brilliance, is largely lost to
the general reading public because of the linguistic barrier:
far less than one hundredth of one percent of the world’s
population is able to read literary Yiddish, and even most Jews
fall into this deprived category. In this Volume, Songs To
A Moonstruck Lady, Barnett Zumoff has stepped into the breach
by creating and presenting masterly translations of 85 Yiddish
poems by the best of the women poets and 60 Yiddish poems about
women by a broad range of the great male poets. Readers of this
anthology who have not previously been familiar with Yiddish literature
are in for a treat: they will obtain a striking picture of a magnificent
slice of world literature and will experience the emotional impact
of great poetry.
TSAR Publications,
2006
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