- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish‒Jewish Studies
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Contents
- Note on Names of People and Places
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Review Essays Recent Books on the Catholic Church in Poland
- ‘You shall not bear false witness’
- A Lithuanian Account of Life in the Camps
- Analyses of World Antisemitism Published between 1991 and 1997
- Book Reviews
- Die Krakauer Jüdische Reformgemeinde, 1864‒1874
- No Way Out: The Politics of Polish Jewry, 1935‒1939
- Essential Papers on Jews and the Left(New York: New York University Press, 1997); pp. viii + 552 (paperback)
- Hebrew Poetry in Poland between the Two World Wars
- Obcy W Polskim Domu: Nacjonalistyczne Koncepcje RozwiąZania Problemu Mniejszości Narodowych 1918‒1939
- Toledot Hakolnoa Hayehudi Befolin, 1901‒1950
- Salo Wittmayer Baron: Architect of Jewish History
- Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust
- Lost Landscapes: In Search of the Jews of Poland,
- Obituary Teresa Prekerowa 1922‒1998
- Correspondence Exchange between Rafał Żebrowski and Hanna Kozińska-Witt
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
Hebrew Poetry in Poland between the Two World Wars
Hebrew Poetry in Poland between the Two World Wars
- Chapter:
- Hebrew Poetry in Poland between the Two World Wars
- Source:
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 13
- Author(s):
David Weinfeld (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter addresses David Weinfeld's anthology Hebrew Poetry in Poland between the Two World Wars (1997). This anthology includes two dozen Hebrew poets and is valuable if only from a historical viewpoint as most of these poets are forgotten and their works are mostly unavailable. Weinfeld includes biographical details on each writer and a ninety-two-page introduction to the social and historical background, with sections on the most important of the poets, Yitzhak Katznelson (better known as a Yiddish poet), Matityahu Shoham, and especially Berl Pomerantz. However, most of the poems, Weinfeld concedes, are of limited artistic interest. This poetry is inadvertently a tombstone for Polish Hebrew literature and, indeed, for Polish Jewry. About half the poets died in the Holocaust.
Keywords: David Weinfeld, Hebrew poets, Yitzhak Katznelson, Matityahu Shoham, Berl Pomerantz, Polish Hebrew literature, Polish Jewry, Hebrew poetry
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- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish‒Jewish Studies
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Contents
- Note on Names of People and Places
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Review Essays Recent Books on the Catholic Church in Poland
- ‘You shall not bear false witness’
- A Lithuanian Account of Life in the Camps
- Analyses of World Antisemitism Published between 1991 and 1997
- Book Reviews
- Die Krakauer Jüdische Reformgemeinde, 1864‒1874
- No Way Out: The Politics of Polish Jewry, 1935‒1939
- Essential Papers on Jews and the Left(New York: New York University Press, 1997); pp. viii + 552 (paperback)
- Hebrew Poetry in Poland between the Two World Wars
- Obcy W Polskim Domu: Nacjonalistyczne Koncepcje RozwiąZania Problemu Mniejszości Narodowych 1918‒1939
- Toledot Hakolnoa Hayehudi Befolin, 1901‒1950
- Salo Wittmayer Baron: Architect of Jewish History
- Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust
- Lost Landscapes: In Search of the Jews of Poland,
- Obituary Teresa Prekerowa 1922‒1998
- Correspondence Exchange between Rafał Żebrowski and Hanna Kozińska-Witt
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
