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Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900-1970
Ernest B. Gilman
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Description for Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900-1970
Hardback. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACY; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
Part literary history and part medical sociology, Gilman’s book chronicles the careers of three major immigrant Yiddish poets of the twentieth century - Solomon Bloomgarten (Yehoash), Sholem Shtern, and H. Leivick - all of whom lived through, and wrote movingly of, their experience as patients in a tuberculosis sanatorium. Gilman addresses both the formative influence of the sanatorium on the writers’ work and the culture of an institution in which, before the days of antibiotics, writing was encouraged as a form of therapy. He argues that each writer produced a significant body of work during his recovery, itself an experience ... Read more
Part literary history and part medical sociology, Gilman’s book chronicles the careers of three major immigrant Yiddish poets of the twentieth century - Solomon Bloomgarten (Yehoash), Sholem Shtern, and H. Leivick - all of whom lived through, and wrote movingly of, their experience as patients in a tuberculosis sanatorium. Gilman addresses both the formative influence of the sanatorium on the writers’ work and the culture of an institution in which, before the days of antibiotics, writing was encouraged as a form of therapy. He argues that each writer produced a significant body of work during his recovery, itself an experience ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815633792
SKU
V9780815633792
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About Ernest B. Gilman
Ernest B. Gilman is professor of English at New York University. He is the author of four critical studies of early modern literature and culture, most recently Plague Writing in Early Modern England.
Reviews for Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900-1970
Gilman is a skillful writer, with a very engaging and readable style. He utilizes a wealth of secondary sources, incorporates robust background literature about tuberculosis along with close analysis of the poetry of three major Jewish immigrant writers, and offers new insight into the works of Yehoash, Leivick and Shtern from the unusual perspective of the influence of tuberculosis. Gilman’s ... Read more