Letters to America :: selected poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef /
Letters to America presents the life and work of an accomplished Jewish poet who exchanged the American promised land for the Israeli one, yet struggled to exorcise the ghosts of his American past and make his home in the Jewish state. Born Robert Reiss in 1930s New York, in 1959 Reuven Ben-Yosef ba...
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2015.
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| Ausgabe: | First edition. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art.
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| Zusammenfassung: | Letters to America presents the life and work of an accomplished Jewish poet who exchanged the American promised land for the Israeli one, yet struggled to exorcise the ghosts of his American past and make his home in the Jewish state. Born Robert Reiss in 1930s New York, in 1959 Reuven Ben-Yosef bade farewell to his affluent, assimilated family, immigrated to a kibbutz on Israel's border with Syria, changed his name, and began the process of recreating himself as a Hebrew poet. He went on to publish volumes of exquisite Hebrew verse and win literary awards, to fight in the Yom Kippur War and in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, and to raise three Israeli children. Yet many of his greatest and most emotionally rending poems were about his stormy relationship with his parents and siblings and the American world he left behind. This volume offers a wide selection of Ben-Yosef's poems in English translation, as well as an engaging biographical essay about the poet's life and work, based on interviews with the Israeli family he created in Israel and the American family he sought to come to terms with. Reframing our notions of Jewish American literature, and deepening our understanding of the Israeli-American relationship, Letters to America puts American-Israeli writing on the literary map. |
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| series2 | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art |
| spelling | Ben-Yosef, Reʼuven, 1937-2001. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvcXxGyBTJ7rkV47gqYT3 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82062478 Poems. Selections Letters to America : selected poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef / edited and translated by Michael Weingrad. First edition. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art Includes bibliographical references. Print version record. Reuven Ben-Yosef; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translation; Reuven Ben-Yosef and the Family Reiss; Poems Translated from Hebrew; Poems Published Posthumously; Poems Writt en in English. Letters to America presents the life and work of an accomplished Jewish poet who exchanged the American promised land for the Israeli one, yet struggled to exorcise the ghosts of his American past and make his home in the Jewish state. Born Robert Reiss in 1930s New York, in 1959 Reuven Ben-Yosef bade farewell to his affluent, assimilated family, immigrated to a kibbutz on Israel's border with Syria, changed his name, and began the process of recreating himself as a Hebrew poet. He went on to publish volumes of exquisite Hebrew verse and win literary awards, to fight in the Yom Kippur War and in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, and to raise three Israeli children. Yet many of his greatest and most emotionally rending poems were about his stormy relationship with his parents and siblings and the American world he left behind. This volume offers a wide selection of Ben-Yosef's poems in English translation, as well as an engaging biographical essay about the poet's life and work, based on interviews with the Israeli family he created in Israel and the American family he sought to come to terms with. Reframing our notions of Jewish American literature, and deepening our understanding of the Israeli-American relationship, Letters to America puts American-Israeli writing on the literary map. Ben-Yosef, Reʼuven, 1937-2001. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82062478 Ben-Yosef, Reʼuven, 1937-2001 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvcXxGyBTJ7rkV47gqYT3 Poetry. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85103704 Poésie. poetry. aat LITERARY CRITICISM Jewish. bisacsh Poetry fast Weingrad, Michael, editor, translator. Print version: Ben-Yosef, Reʼuven, 1937-2001. Poems. Selections. Letters to America. First edition. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015 (DLC) 2015008000 Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95055290 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=916359 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Ben-Yosef, Reʼuven, 1937-2001 Letters to America : selected poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef / Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art. Reuven Ben-Yosef; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translation; Reuven Ben-Yosef and the Family Reiss; Poems Translated from Hebrew; Poems Published Posthumously; Poems Writt en in English. Ben-Yosef, Reʼuven, 1937-2001. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82062478 Ben-Yosef, Reʼuven, 1937-2001 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvcXxGyBTJ7rkV47gqYT3 Poetry. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85103704 Poésie. poetry. aat LITERARY CRITICISM Jewish. bisacsh Poetry fast |
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| title_auth | Letters to America : selected poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef / |
| title_exact_search | Letters to America : selected poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef / |
| title_full | Letters to America : selected poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef / edited and translated by Michael Weingrad. |
| title_fullStr | Letters to America : selected poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef / edited and translated by Michael Weingrad. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Letters to America : selected poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef / edited and translated by Michael Weingrad. |
| title_short | Letters to America : |
| title_sort | letters to america selected poems of reuven ben yosef |
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| topic | Ben-Yosef, Reʼuven, 1937-2001. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82062478 Ben-Yosef, Reʼuven, 1937-2001 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvcXxGyBTJ7rkV47gqYT3 Poetry. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85103704 Poésie. poetry. aat LITERARY CRITICISM Jewish. bisacsh Poetry fast |
| topic_facet | Ben-Yosef, Reʼuven, 1937-2001. Ben-Yosef, Reʼuven, 1937-2001 Poetry. Poésie. poetry. LITERARY CRITICISM Jewish. Poetry |
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