POETRY & FICTION TRANSLATIONS

PJ 5129.F34 A17 1969 Fell-Yellin, Sarah. Songs of days and years: poems. Los Angeles: Mendellin, 1969.

PJ 5129.R6 A29 1964 Goldberg, Itche and Max Rosenfeld, eds. Morris Rosenfeld: Selections From His Poetry and Prose. New York: Yiddisher Kultur Farband, 1964. One of the "sweatshop poets" of the late nineteenth-century Lower East Side, in his poetry, Rosenfeld evoked the oppressiveness of the sweatshops and expressed immigrant Jews' yearnings for another kind of life in almost messianic terms. Additional work by Rosenfeld is listed in the Yiddish section on Poetry & Fiction.

PJ 5191.E8 N48 1961 Goodman, Henry, ed. and trans. The new country: stories from the Yiddish about life in America. New York: YKUF, 1961.

PJ 5126 .I4 Imber, Samuel Jacob, ed. Modern Yiddish poetry, an anthology. New York: The East and West Publishing Co., 1927.

PJ 5129.L55 A27 Liptzin, Samuel. Tales of a tailor; humor and tragedy in the struggles of the early immigrants against the sweatshop. New York: n.p., 1965

PJ 5129.R25 N313 1968 Raboy, I[saac]. Nine brothers: a novel. Translated by Max Rosenfeld. Foreword by Itche Goldberg. New York: Yiddisher Kultur Farband (YKUF), 1968. Published originally in Yiddish by the International Workers Order as Nayn brider (1936). Raboy immigrated to the U.S. from Russia in 1904. He began publishing stories in Yiddish in 1906 and became affiliated with the group of Yiddish writers and poets known as di Yunge, "the young ones."

PJ 5129.R6 A27 Rosenfeld, Morris. Songs of labor, and other poems. Translated by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank. Boston: R. G. Badger, 1914.

PJ 5129.S3 R813 Safine, Theodore. Russian windfall. Translated by Meyer London. Boston: B. Humphries, Inc., 1946.

PJ 5129.W5 A16 1908 Winchevsky, Morris. Stories of the struggle. Chicago: C. H. Kerr & Company, 1908. Founding editor of the anarchist Arbayter Fraynd in London, writer, poet, and activist, Winchevsky was, along with Joseph Bovshover and Morris Rosenfeld, considered one of the "sweatshop poets," the worker poets whose literary output came out of and reflected the lives of working-class immigrant Jews. Winchevsky's Yiddish work is listed under Poetry & Fiction and Art & Culture.

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