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Yunge Yorn verse autobiography in Yiddish about life in Lithuania
1952H36081Mexico City: Farlag Tsvi Kessel 1952. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. Cloth in dust jacket book very good jacket fair to good with general soil edgewear chips and tears. 235 pp. In Yiddish. From an online encyclopedia not wikipedia we found the following information on Schwartz: 1885–1971 Yiddish poet and translator. Born in Petroshun Lithuania he began his literary career translating some of Bialik's poems into Yiddish. In 1906 he emigrated to New York and as soon as he had mastered English translated poems by Shakespeare Milton and Walt Whitman. He participated in the publications of the literary movement Di Yunge but dissociated himself from its rebelliously militant members. In 1918 he settled in Lexington Kentucky where he found rich material which he incorporated in his verse epic Kentoki "Kentucky" 1925 translating it himself into Hebrew 1962. It is generally rated as one of the finest achievements of American Yiddish literature. The hero of this narrative is a Jewish peddler who rises from poverty to affluence in the course of decades of hard work and just dealings with his neighbors and becomes a respected prosperous pillar of Kentucky society. Schwartz's verse autobiography Yunge Yorn "Young Years" 1952 wove a web of enchantment about his native Lithuanian town along the Nieman River and about the Kovno yeshivah where together with traditional studies he became familiar with Bialik's Hebrew Reisen's Yiddish and Herzl's Zionist visions. Yunge Yorn ends with his departure from home for the New World. Because of Schwartz's lifelong preoccupation with translating contemporary Hebrew poets his Yiddish style has a rich Hebraic flavor. Farlag Tsvi Kessel hardcover
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