YIDDISH CULTURE

PN 56.S87 A77 1989 Buhle, Paul. "The Yiddish poets of di Yunge." pp. 156­160. In Arsenal: surrealist subversion. Edited by Franklin Rosemont. Chicago, Ill.: Black Swan Press, 1989. American Yiddish literary movement of the 1920s composed of poets, most notably Moshe Leib Halpern and Moshe Nadir, and writers, including Isaac Raboy, committed both to political radicalism and the creation of a literary Yiddish through poetry. In addition to publishing several of their own collected volumes, poets of di Yunge were also published by the Communist Freiheit and anarchist Freie Arbeiter Shtimme.

NC 1429 .G73 Gropper, William. Alay-oop. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1930. Born to Jewish immigrant parents on New York's Lower East Side in 1897, Gropper studied art at the radical Ferrer School (named after Spanish anarchist educator Francisco Ferrer) and at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. He drew cartoons for, among others, The Masses, the IWW's Labor Defender and Rebel Worker, and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Advance. From 1924-1948, Gropper was a staff cartoonist for the Yiddish Communist newspaper the Freiheit. In the 1920s he drew scathing cartoons, many of which are collected in Di goldene medineh, criticizing and lampooning Jewish socialists, notably Forverts editor Abe Cahan and ILGWU president Morris Sigman, as well as rabbis and other Jewish communal leaders.

NC 1429 .G733 ___. Gropper. New York: A. C. A. Gallery Publications, 1938.

NC 1429 .G735 ___. The little tailor. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955.

NC 139.G73 A42 ___. William Gropper--fifty years of drawing, 1921-1971. New York: A.C.A. Galleries, 1971.

NE2312.L69 A4 1997 Lozowick, Louis. Survivor from a dead age: the memoirs of Louis Lozowick. Edited by Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. Painter and printmaker Louis Lozowick was on the editorial board of New Masses in the 1920s and was a founding member of the John Reed Club and the American Artists' Congress in the 1930s. Born in Ukraine, Lozowick received a traditional Jewish education until he was pulled out of yeshiva by his brother, a socialist activist living in Kiev. He studied at the Kiev Art Institute and, after immigrating to the United States, at the National Academy of Design. Influenced by the "machine aesthetic" of the Russian Constructivist and German Bauhaus movements. Lozowick was a colleague and friend of artist and illustrator William Gropper.

N 6537.G73 L6 1983 Oversize ___. William Gropper. Philadelphia and London: Art Alliance Press and Associated University Presses, 1983.

PN 3035.N28 1998 Nahshon, Edna. Yiddish proletarian theatre: the art and politics of the Artef, 1925­1940. Wesport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Affiliated with the Freiheit and the Jewish Bureau of the CP, ARTEF (Arbeter Teater Farband) was founded in 1925. Before it folded in 1940, it presented productions that combined commitments to Jewish working-class struggles and a "high art" vision of the theater.

PN 4885.Y5 T95 1997 Tyler, Gus. A vital voice: 100 years of the Jewish Forward. New York: The Forward Association, Inc., 1997. Brief history written by the former business manager of what was once the largest circulation Yiddish daily in the world.

F 128.9.J5 Z33 Zagat, Samuel. Jewish life on New York's Lower East Side 1912-1962. New York: Rogers Book Service, 1972. Zagat immigrated from Lithuania as a boy with his parents and trained at the Art Students League. His cartoons appeared in the Varhayt from 1912­1919 and in the Forverts from 1919 until his death in 1964.

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