Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine by Amelia M. Glaser bilingual and settled in the new

and settled in the new state of Israel after the war

a global dandy with three passports

Against near impossible obstacles

its examples always to the point and often memorable in themselves

Matzo Ball Humor

Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine by Amelia M. Glaser bilingual and settled in the newBetween the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the earthPalestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicansin Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective trauma but embracing a global community of the oppressed. The long 1930s, Amelia M. Glaser proposes, gave rise to a genre of internationalist modernism in which