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

Translated from the Yiddish by Channa Kleinerman Goldstein and Inna Hecker Grade

of greater assertiveness and self-confidence

Holocaust studies

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