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Contents
Preface / David Weintraub.......................................................................ix
Translator's Acknowledgments....................................................................xi
A Note on Orthography...........................................................................xiii
Chronology......................................................................................xv
Introduction: The Days of Proletpen in American Yiddish Poetry / Dovid Katz.....................3
Urban Landscape
New York / Alexander Pomerantz..................................................................30
My New York Street Sings / Esther Shumyatsher...................................................36
from America / Beresh Vaynshteyn................................................................38
Shadows / Avrom Viktor..........................................................................40
from "On the Hudson" / Nokhem Vaysman...........................................................42
Wolves / Y. A. Rontsh...........................................................................44
By the River / Martin Birnbaum ... read full excerpt from Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets ebook
