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Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftists reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth-Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicans-in Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective trauma but embracing a global community of the oppressed.

Studies of Eastern European literature have largely confined themselves to a single language, culture, or nationality. In this highly original book, Glaser shows how writers working in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish during much of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century were in intense conversation with one another. The marketplace was both the literal locale at which members of these different societies and culture...

Amelia M. Glaser is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Studies of eastern European literature have largely confined themselves to a single language, culture, or nationality. In this original book, Glaser reveals the rich cultural exchange among writers working in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish in the Ukrainian territories, from Nikolai Gogol's The Sorochintsy Fair to Isaac Babel's stories about the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian countryside.