Contents
- LITERATURE OF ARRIVAL, 1654–1880
- ABRAHAM DE LUCENA ET AL.
To the Honorable Director General and Council of New Netherlands - HAIM ISAAC KARIGAL (1729–1777)
From A Sermon Preached at the Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island - MORDECAI SHEFTALL (1735–1797)
From Diary - HAYM SALOMON (1740–1785)
[Letter from "a Jew Broker"] - JACOB I. COHEN (1744–1823)
A Prayer for the Medina - REBECCA SAMUEL (fl. 1790s)
[Letters to Her Parents] - JACOB HENRY (1775–1847)
An Address in the Committee of the Whole of the House of Commons of North Carolina - REBECCA GRATZ (1781–1869)
From Letters of Rebecca Gratz- To Benjamin Gratz (February 27, 1825)
- To Maria Gist Gratz (June 29, 1834)
- To Maria Gist Gratz (August 27, 1840)
- To Ann Boswell Gratz (August 23, 1861)
- To Ann Boswell Gratz (September 12, 1861)
- To Ann Boswell Gratz (March 11, 1863)
- To Benjamin Gratz (April 15, 1863)
- MORDECAI MANUEL NOAH (1785–1851)
The Fortress of Sorrento - PENINA MO¦SE (1797–1880)
Hymn
Miriam - ISAAC LEESER (1806–1868)
From Discourses on the Jewish Religion- Discourse XXIV. The Dangers and Defenses of Judaism
- ISAAC MAYER WISE (1819–1900)
The Fourth of July, 1858 - ADAH ISAACS MENKEN (1835–1868)
Judith
Myself
Hear, O Israel! - NATHAN MAYER (1838–1912)
From The Fatal Secret! or, Plots and Counterplots: A Novel of the Sixteenth Century- Chapter XLVI. The Escape
- ANONYMOUS
Miriam - EMMA LAZARUS (1849–1887)
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport
The New Ezekiel
Echoes
1492
The New Colossus
Venus of the Louvre - THE GREAT TIDE, 1881–1920
- ABRAHAM CAHAN (1860–1951)
A Ghetto Wedding - MORRIS ROSENFELD (1862–1923)
Corner of Pain and Anguish
My Little Son
Walt Whitman (America’s Great Poet) - DAVID EDELSHTADT (1866–1892)
To the Muse
My Testament - YEHOASH (1872–1927)
Amid the Colorado Mountains
Woolworth Building
Lynching
Yang-Ze-Fu
Rachel’s Tomb - AVROM REYZEN (1876–1953)
Equality of the Sexes - YENTE SERDATSKY (1877–1962)
Unchanged - LAMED SHAPIRO (1878–1948)
White Chalah - JOSEPH ROLNIK (1879–1955)
Poets
Home from Praying
The First Cigarette - SHOLEM ASCH (1880–1957)
From God of Vengeance- Act I
- SIDNEY L. NYBURG (1880–1957)
From The Chosen People- Chapter VI. The Brotherhood of Man
- MARY ANTIN (1881–1949)
The Lie - HORACE M. KALLEN (1882–1974)
From Democracy versus the Melting-Pot- Part Two
- MANI LEYB (1883–1953)
Hush
I Am…
They…
A Plum
Strangers
Odors
To the Gentile Poet
Inscribed on a Tombstone -
I. J. SCHWARTZ (1885–1971)
From Kentucky- Blue Grass
- Litvaks
- Again Litvaks
- MOYSHE NADIR (1885–1943)
The Man Who Slept through the End of the World - ANZIA YEZIERSKA (ca. 1885–1970)
Children of Loneliness - MOYSHE-LEYB HALPERN (1886–1932)
Memento Mori (translated by Kathryn Hellerstein)
Memento Mori (translated by John Hollander)
Memento Mori (Yiddish and transliteration)
In the Golden Land
Isaac Leybush Peretz
Zlochov, My Home
My Only Son - JOSEPH OPATOSHU (1886–1954)
Brothers - CELIA DROPKIN (1887–1956)
I Am Drowning
You Plowed My Fertile Soil
My Mother
The Circus Lady
Adam
[You didn’t sow a child in me-]
[I have not yet seen you]
Sonya’s Room - ANNA MARGOLIN (1887–1952)
I Was Once a Boy (translated by Kathryn Hellerstein)
I Was Once a Boy (Yiddish and transliteration)
Mother Earth
Forgotten Gods
My Ancestors Speak
A City by the Sea
Dear Monsters
Epitaph - EDNA FERBER (1887–1968)
From Fanny Herself- Chapter Three
- H. LEYVIK (1888–1962)
Clouds behind the Forest
Sanatorium
How Did He Get Here? (Spinoza Cycle, No. 2)
Song of the Yellow Patch
To America
Sacrifice - FRADL SHTOK (1890-ca. 1930)
The Shorn Head
Sonnet
A Winter Echo
Dusks - THE YANKEE TALMUD (1892, 1893)
From The Tractate "America" (Gershon Rosenzweig)
From The Tractate "The Ways of the New Land" (Abraham Kotlier) - A BINTL BRIV (A BUNDLE OF LETTERS) (1906–1923)
[From a "Greenhorn" (1906)]
[Anti-Semitism on the Job (1907)]
[To Study or to Work? (1907)]
[Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (1907)]
[Socialist Freethinking and Jewish Tradition (1908)]
[White Slavery (1909)]
[From a Union Scab (1910)]
[Staying in School (1911)]
[Fighting for the Kaiser (1914)]
[Returning to Russia (1917)]
[From a Rape Victim (1923)] - JEWISH HUMOR
- GROUCHO MARX (1890–1977)
[We Were Brothers before You Were] - LENNY BRUCE (1925–1966)
From How to Talk Dirty and Influence People- Is Jew a Dirty Word?
- WOODY ALLEN (b. 1935)
The Scrolls - A SCATTERING OF CONTEMPORARY AND PERENNIAL JEWISH JOKES
- FROM MARGIN TO MAINSTREAM IN DIFFICULT TIMES, 1920–1945
- GERTRUDE STEIN (1874–1946)
From The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress- From Chapter 1. The Dehnings and the Herslands
- LUDWIG LEWISOHN (1882–1955)
From Up Stream: An American Chronicle- From Chapter V. The American Discovers Exile
- A. LEYELES (AARON GLANZ) (1889–1966)
The God of Israel
New York
Fabius Lind’s Days
Shlomo Molkho Sings on the Eve of His Burning - MICHAEL GOLD (1893–1967)
From Jews without Money- Fifty Cents a Night
- CHARLES REZNIKOFF (1894–1976)
Building Boom
Russia: Anno 1905
From A Short History of Israel, Notes and Glosses- XI
[The invitation read: not to mourn]
From Early History of a Writer 15 - JACOB GLATSTEIN (YANKEV GLATSHTEYN) (1896–1971)
1919
Autobiography
We the Wordproletariat
Good Night, World
Without Jews
Resistance in the Ghetto
The Joy of the Yiddish Word - EDWARD DAHLBERG (1900–1977)
From The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg- From Chapter IX. And so…my mother…
- KENNETH FEARING (1902–1961)
Dirge
Beware
Afternoon of a Pawnbroker - NATHANAEL WEST (1903–1940)
From A Cool Million- International Jewish Bankers and Bolsheviks
- S. J. PERELMAN (1904–1979)
Waiting for Santy: A Christmas Playlet
Nathanael West: A Portrait - LOUIS ZUKOFSKY (1904–1978)
From Poem beginning "The"- Fifth Movement: Autobiography
- [Arrived mostly with bedding in a sheet]
- [In Hebrew "In the beginning"]
- BERISH VAYNSHTEYN (BERISH WEINSTEIN) (1905–1967)
Earth
On the Docks
Lynching - HENRY ROTH (1905–1995)
From Call It Sleep- From Book I. The Cellar
- TESS SLESINGER (1905–1945)
Missis Flinders - STANLEY KUNITZ (b. 1905)
Father and Son
Foreign Affairs
Quinnapoxet - MEYER LEVIN (1905–1981)
From The Old Bunch- What’s in a Name
- CLIFFORD ODETS (1906–1963)
Awake and Sing! - LEO ROSTEN (b. 1908)
From The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N- Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and Shakespeare
- DANIEL FUCHS (1909–1993)
A Hollywood Diary - EDWIN ROLFE (1909–1954)
Epitaph
Elegia - HORTENSE CALISHER (b.1911)
The Rabbi’s Daughter - PAUL GOODMAN (1911–1972)
A Memorial Synagogue - J. L. TELLER (1912–1972)
Sigmund Freud at the Age of Eighty-Two
Of Immigration
New York in a Jewish Mood - MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913–1980)
Boy with His Hair Cut Short
More of a Corpse Than a Woman
Paper Anniversary
From Letter to the Front- 7. [To be a Jew in the twentieth century]
- DELMORE SCHWARTZ (1913–1966)
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
The Ballet of the Fifth Year
The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me
Summer Knowledge - IRWIN SHAW (1913–1984)
The Lament of Madame Rechevsky - KARL SHAPIRO (b. 1913)
Lord, I Have Seen Too Much
Sunday: New Guinea
My Grandmother
Israel
The Alphabet - ARTHUR MILLER (b. 1915)
Monte Sant’ Angelo - ISAAC ROSENFELD (1918–1956)
The Situation of the Jewish Writer - ACHIEVEMENT AND AMBIVALENCE, 1945–1973
- EPHRAIM E. LISITZKY (1885–1962)
From In the Grip of Cross-Currents
From Part IV- Chapter VIII. [The Urge to Write}
- Chapter IX. [Meeting Dolitzky]
- Chapter X. [The Hebrew Writer in Person]
- Chapter IV. [The Hebrew Teacher]
- Chapter V. [A Teacher’s Mission]
- MALKA HEIFETZ TUSSMAN (1893–1987)
With Teeth in the Earth
Water without Sound
Thunder My Brother
Sweet Father
Forgotten
In Spite - KADYA MOLODOWSKY (1894–1975)
Alphabet Letters
God of Mercy
Letters from the Ghetto
The Lost Shabes - CARL RAKOSI (b. 1903)
Israel
Services
Meditation: After Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Meditation: After Moses Ibn Ezra
Song: After Judah Halevi - ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1904–1991)
Gimpel the Fool
The Séance - LIONEL TRILLING (1905–1975)
From The Liberal Imagination
From Freud and Literature
From Isaac Babel - GEORGE OPPEN (1908–1984)
Psalm
Exodus
Disasters
If It All Went Up in Smoke
The Occurrences - CHAIM GRADE (1910–1982)
My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner - EMMA ADATTO SCHLESINGER (b. 1910)
"La TÌa EstambolÌa" - GABRIEL PREIL (1911–1993)
I Am Not in New York
The Eternal Present
Moving
Van Gogh. Williamsburg - KATE SIMON (1912–1990)
From Bronx Primitive: Portraits of a Childhood- 5. The Movies and Other Schools
- TILLIE OLSEN (b. 1913)
Tell Me a Riddle - DAVID IGNATOW (1914–1997)
God Said
Autumn Leaves
Europe and America
The Bagel
In Limbo - BERNARD MALAMED (1914–1986)
The Last Mohican
The Magic Barrel - SAUL BELLOW (b. 1915)
Something to Remember Me By - ALFRED KAZIN (1915–1998)
From A Walker in the City- The Kitchen
- IRVING HOWE (b. 1920)
Sholom Aleichem: Voice of Our Past - HOWARD NEMEROV (1920–1991)
Lot’s Wife
A Song of Degrees
Nicodemus - GRACE PALEY (b. 1922)
The Loudest Voice
A Conversation with My father
In This Country, but in Another Language, My Aunt Refuses to Marry the Men Everyone Wants Her To - ANTHONY HECHT (b. 1923)
The Room
The Book of Yolek - SHIRLEY KAUFMAN (b. 1923)
His Wife
Bunk Beds
Stones - DENISE LEVERTOV (1923–1997)
Illustrious Ancestors
The Jacob’s Ladder
Candles in Babylon - NORMAN MAILER (b. 1923)
Responses & Reactions
Responses & Reactions V - LOUIS SIMPSON (b. 1923)
A Story about Chicken Soup
Dvonya - GERALD STERN (b. 1925)
Sixteen Minutes
Lucky Life - IRVING FELDMAN (b. 1928)
Psalm
The Pripet Marshes - ALLEN GINSBERG (1928–1997)
Footnote to Howl
From Kaddish II
From Hymmnn- V. [O mother]
- V. [Caw caw caw]
- PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928)
The Sweetness of Bobby Hefka
Sources
Zaydee
On a Drawing by Flavio - CYNTHIA OZICK (b. 1928)
The Shawl
Envy; or, Yiddish in America - ELIE WIESEL (b. 1928)
Why I Write
From Night- Chapter 3. [Arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau]
- Chapter 9. [Liberation]
- JOHN HOLLANDER (b. 1929)
The Ninth of Ab
The Ziz
Adam’s Task - PHILIP ROTH (b. 1933)
From The Ghost Writer- Femme Fatale
- THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE BROADWAY SONG
- OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II (1895–1960) and JEROME KERN (1885–1945)
From Show Boat- Ol’ Man River
- IRVING BERLIN (1888–1989)
God Bless America - LORENZ HART (1895–1943) and RICHARD RODGERS (1902–1979)
From Pal Joey- Bewitched
- FRANK LOESSER (1910–1969)
From Guys and Dolls- Adelaide’s Lament
- STEPHEN SONDHEIM (b. 1930) and LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918–1990)
From West Side Story- America
- SHELDON HARNICK (b. 1924) and JERRY BOCK (b. 1928)
From Fiddler on the Roof- If I Were a Rich Man
- "WANDERING AND RETURN": LITERATURE SINCE 1973
- CHAIM POTOK (b. 1929)
From My Name Is Asher Lev - ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)
Yom Kippur 1984
From Eastern War Time- 10
- VII
- E. M. BRONER (b. 1930)
From A Weave of Women- Chapter 1. The Birth
- BRUCE JAY FRIEDMAN (b. 1930)
When You’re Excused, You’re Excused - HAROLD BLOOM (b. 1931)
From The Book of J- [Introduction]
- E. L. DOCTOROW (b. 1931)
Heist - JEROME ROTHENBERG (b. 1931)
Dibbukim (Dibbiks)
Cokboy- Part One
- ALLEN GROSSMAN (b. 1932)
Poland of Death (IV) - TOVA REICH (b. 1932)
The Lost Girl - MARGE PIERCY (b. 1936)
Maggid
The Ram’s Horn Sounding - MARK MIRSKY (b. 1939)
Memory Candle - ROBERT PINSKY (b. 1940)
Avenue
The Night Came
Visions of Daniel - MAX APPLE (b. 1941)
The Eighth Day - IRENA KLEPFISZ (b. 1941)
Fradel Schtok
Bashert- These words are dedicated to those who died
- These words are dedicated to those who survived
- STEVE STERN (b. 1947)
Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven - ART SPIEGELMAN (b. 1948)
From MAUS II: And Now My Troubles Began - CHARLES BERNSTEIN (b. 1950)
From Sentences My Father Used- [Casts across otherwise unavailable fields]
- EDWARD HIRSCH (b. 1950)
Oscar Ginsburg
The Village Idiot
Idea of the Holy - MELVIN JULES BUKIET (b. 1953)
The Library of Moloch - JACQUELINE OSHEROW (b. 1956)
Ponar
Brief Encounter with a Hero, Name Unknown
Ch’vil Schreibn a Poem auf Yiddish - ALLEGRA GOODMAN (b. 1967)
The Four Questions - MIRIAM ISRAEL MOSES (b. 1950)
Excerpts from Survivors and Pieces of Glass - JEWS TRANSLATING JEWS
- EMMA LAZARUS (1849–1887)
Judah Halevi, Longing for Jerusalem
Heinrich Heine, [I know not what spell is o’er me] - CHARLES REZNIKOFF (1894–1976)
Judah Halevi, [My heart in the East] - PETER COLE (b. 1957)
Samuel Hanagid, [Your manuscript shines] - JOACHIM NEUGROSCHEL (b. 1938)
Else Lasker-Sch¸ler, Hagar and Ishmael - STEPHEN BERG (b. 1934) and S. J. MARKS (1935–1991)
MiklÛs RadnÛti- The Seventh Eclogue
- Postcard: 4
- C. K. WILLIAMS (b. 1936)
Avraham Sutzkever, A Load of Shoes - SHIRLEY KAUFMAN (b. 1923)
Abba Kovner, #28, My Little Sister
Amir Gilboa, Isaac - RUTH FELDMAN (b. 1911)
Primo Levi, Shema - JOHN FELSTINER (b. 1936)
Paul Celan- Deathfugue
- Psalm
- CHANA BLOCH (b. 1940)
Yehuda Amichai, Jews in the Land of Israel
Dahlia Ravikovitch, Deep Calleth unto Deep - DAVID UNGER (b. 1950)
Isaac Goldemberg, The Jews in Hell
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