{"product_id":"songs-in-dark-times-yiddish-poetry-of-struggle-from-scottsboro-to-palestine-9780674248458","title":"Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA probing reading of leftist Jewish poets who, during the interwar period, drew on the trauma of pogroms to depict the suffering of other marginalized peoples.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBetween the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth--Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicans--in Yiddish verse. \u003ci\u003eSongs in Dark Times\u003c\/i\u003e examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective trauma but embracing a global community of the oppressed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe long 1930s, Amelia M. Glaser proposes, gave rise to a genre of internationalist modernism in which tropes of national collective memory were rewritten as the shared experiences of many national groups. The utopian Jews of \u003ci\u003eSongs in Dark Times\u003c\/i\u003e effectively globalized the pogroms in a bold and sometimes fraught literary move that asserted continuity with anti-Arab violence and black lynching. As communists and fellow travelers, the writers also sought to integrate particular experiences of suffering into a borderless narrative of class struggle. Glaser resurrects their poems from the pages of forgotten Yiddish communist periodicals, particularly the New York-based \u003ci\u003eMorgn Frayhayt\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eMorning Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e) and the Soviet literary journal \u003ci\u003eRoyte Velt\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eRed World\u003c\/i\u003e). Alongside compelling analysis, Glaser includes her own translations of ten poems previously unavailable in English, including Malka Lee's \"God's Black Lamb,\" Moyshe Nadir's \"Closer,\" and Esther Shumiatsher's \"At the Border of China.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese poets dreamed of a moment when \"we\" could mean \"we workers\" rather than \"we Jews.\" \u003ci\u003eSongs in Dark Times\u003c\/i\u003e takes on the beauty and difficulty of that dream, in the minds of Yiddish writers who sought to heal the world by translating pain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlaser, Amelia M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Amelia M. Glaser is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego, and an award-winning translator. She is author of \u003ci\u003eJews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e and has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books, Jewish Quarterly, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50371951198482,"sku":"9780674248458","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_330f898e-0605-4867-9c31-5b7f62defe2d.jpg?v=1728541852","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/songs-in-dark-times-yiddish-poetry-of-struggle-from-scottsboro-to-palestine-9780674248458","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}