Yankev glatshteyn biography

  • Jacob Glatstein was a Polish-born American poet and literary critic who wrote in the Yiddish language.
  • Jacob Glatstein was a Polish-born American poet and literary critic who wrote in the Yiddish language.
  • Jacob Glatstein (b.

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    Yankev Glatshteyn (–) is considered one of the giants of American Yiddish letters. Born in Lublin, Poland, he settled in New York at the age of eighteen, working in sweatshops, studying law, and eventually settling in a career as a journalist and poet. Glatshteyn made a name for himself as a pioneer of radical modernism and founded, alongside the other Yiddish luminaries, the so-called Introspectivist school of Yiddish poetry that prized aesthetic innovation over political or social concerns. After the Holocaust, Glatshteyn’s verse took a decidedly more ideological and at times mournful turn as he tried to come to terms with the destruction of Europe Jewry and its world as he knew it.

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    Born in Lublin, Poland, Glatstein emigrated to the United States in and lived there until his death. One of the major figures in modern Yiddish poetry, Glatstein cultivated free verse and poetry closely related to the reality of contemporary events and society. A master of the Yiddish show more language, he created poems that became classic expressions of Jewish attitudes and reactions to the tragic events of the Holocaust. He also wrote brilliant prose; especially remarkable are two accounts of a trip to Europe on the eve of World War II. (Bowker Author Biography)show less

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    As I read Karl and Emil, I kept asking myself "What would I do if I was orphaned with my best friend trying to survive in Vienna at the very beginning of WWII?" As young as Karl and Emil are (9 years old), they are incredibly brave. After both

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    YANKEV GLATSHTEYN (JACOB GLATSTEIN) (August 20, November 19, )

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