In A Question of Tradition, Kathryn Hellerstein explores the roles that women poets played in forming a modern Yiddish literary tradition. Women who wrote in Yiddish go largely unrecognized outside a rapidly diminishing Yiddish readership. Even in the heyday of Yiddish literature, they were regarded...

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1. Verfasser:	Hellerstein, Kathryn (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Schriftenreihe:	Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Schlagworte:	Yiddish poetry > Women authors > History and criticism. Jewish poetry > Women authors > History and criticism. Authors, Yiddish. Écrivains yiddish. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German. LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish. Jewish poetry > Women authors Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Zusammenfassung:	In A Question of Tradition, Kathryn Hellerstein explores the roles that women poets played in forming a modern Yiddish literary tradition. Women who wrote in Yiddish go largely unrecognized outside a rapidly diminishing Yiddish readership. Even in the heyday of Yiddish literature, they were regarded as marginal. But for over four centuries, women wrote and published Yiddish poems that addressed the crises of Jewish history-from the plague to the Holocaust-as well as the challenges and pleasures of daily life: prayer, art, friendship, nature, family, and love. Through close readings and translations of poems of eighteen writers, Hellerstein argues for a new perspective on a tradition of women Yiddish poets. Framed by a consideration of Ezra Korman's 1928 anthology of women poets, Hellerstein develops a discussion of poetry that extends from the sixteenth century through the twentieth, from early modern Prague and Krakow to high modernist Warsaw, New York, and California. The poems range from early conventional devotions, such as a printer's preface and verse prayers, to experimental, transgressive lyrics that confront a modern ambivalence toward Judaism. In an integrated study of literary and cultural history, Hellerstein shows the immensely important contribution made by women poets to Jewish literary tradition.--
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xi, 496 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780804793971 0804793972