With Rake in Hand

Memoirs of a Yiddish Poet

Rolnik Joseph (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2016
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-3478-2 (ISBN)

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Joseph Rolnik is widely considered one of the most prominent of the New York Yiddish poets associated with Di Yunge, an avant-garde literary group that formed in the early twentieth century. In his moving and evocative memoir, Rolnik recalls his childhood growing up in a small town in Belarus and his exhilarating yet arduous experiences as an impoverished Yiddish poet living in New York. Working in garment factories by day and writing poetry by night, he became one of the most published and influential writers of the Yiddish literary scene. Unfolding in a series of brief sketches, poems, and vignettes rather than consistent narrative, Rolnik’s memoir is imbued with the poet’s rich, sensuous language, which vividly describes the sounds and images of his life. Marcus’s elegant translation, along with his introduction situating Rolnik’s poetry in its literary historical context, gives readers a fascinating account of this underappreciated literary treasure.

Joseph Rolnik’s (1879–1955) poetry was published in newspapers, journals, and several poetry collections. Gerald Marcus is a painter and printmaker who grew up surrounded by Yiddish-speaking relatives and friends. He is the translator of From Our Springtime: Literary Memoirs and Portraits of Yiddish New York by Reuben Iceland.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Übersetzer	Gerald Marcus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 232 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8156-3478-1 / 0815634781
ISBN-13	978-0-8156-3478-2 / 9780815634782
Zustand	Neuware