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Proletpen America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets Edited by Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub Translated by Amelia Glaser Introduction by Dovid Katz, with illustrations by Dana Craft “A useful and significant resource for scholars, students and teachers of Yiddish and American poetry, of Jewish and American history.” —Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania Winner of the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for Outstanding Translation and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title This unique anthology translates for the first time a little-known body of Yiddish poetry by American Yiddish proletarian writers who identified with the American Left from the 1920s to the early 1950s. Dovid Katz explains how a McCarthy-era “American Yiddish Political Correctness” wrote these leftist poets out of the canon. Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub correct this erasure, recovering the work of thirty poets. Proletpen introduces the reader to an untold chapter of America’s tumultuous history during the pre- and interwar period, revealing the depth and power of Yiddish literature through the backdrop of twentieth-century world politics. Amelia Glaser received her Ph.D in comparative literature from Stanford University. Formerly a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Institute and University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, she is currently a visiting lecturer in Yiddish Language and Literature at Stanford. David Weintraub is executive director of the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture. The Center is in the forefront of revitalizing and reenergizing the Yiddish language, helping to reveal the rich Yiddish culture and language once so basic to Jewish life. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@wwwtest.uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION July 2005 LC: 2004025729 PJ 192 pp.  6 x 9  20 b/w illus. Paper $29.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-20804-2 ADD TO CART   Published in association with the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture

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