Kathryn Hellerstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1555751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Hellerstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Hellerstein |
| SIGNATURE | HELLERSTEIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters
In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here investigate how this exchange of texts and translations, images and ideas, has enriched both Jewish and Chinese cultures and prepared for a global, inclusive world literature. The book breaks new ground…
The Envy of Yiddish
Early in 1969, a professor of literature, Irving Howe, and a Yiddish poet and critic, Eliezer Greenberg, published an anthology, A Treasury of Yiddish Poetry, gathering new translations of works by almost-forgotten Yiddish poets of Europe and America. Among these translations were several poems by David Einhorn (1886–1973), H. Leivick (1888–1962), and Chaim Grade (1910–1982), brought into English by the young American writer Cynthia Ozick. Later …
Moyshe-leib Halpern: Painter and Poet
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 ZUTOT 5.1 Also available online – www.brill.nl * I am extremely grateful to Professor Isaac Halpern for his comments, criti- cisms, and invaluable interviews by telephone and email about the artwork of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern. I also thank David Halpern for taking and allowing me to use the photographs in illustrations 3 (green dresser) and 8 (bear lamp). The other illustrations are made from photographs I took at…
A Letter from Lincoln's Jewish Telegrapher
I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN that my great-great-grandfather, Edward Rosewater, was the telegrapher whom Abraham Lincoln assigned to transmit the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.1 I remember my grandmother taking my brothers and me, when I was twelve, into our Uncle Ed's recently vacated bedroom in her Cleveland house. There, she read to us from the letter, framed in black on the wall, her grandfather's description to his future bride of how Pr…
The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology. Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Irena Klepfisz
A Word for My Blood”: A Reading of Kadya Molodowsky's “Froyen Lider” (Vilna, 1927)
In her autobiography, My Great-Grandfather′s Inheritance, the Yiddish poet Kadya Molodowsky (1893/94–1975) recalled her feeling upon publishing her first book of poetry, Kheshvandike nekht (“Nights of Heshvan”) in 1927
American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology
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American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology
A Word for My Blood”: A Reading of Kadya Molodowsky's “Froyen Lider” (Vilna, 1927)
In her autobiography, My Great-Grandfather′s Inheritance, the Yiddish poet Kadya Molodowsky (1893/94–1975) recalled her feeling upon publishing her first book of poetry, Kheshvandike nekht (“Nights of Heshvan”) in 1927
The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology. Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Irena Klepfisz
A Letter from Lincoln's Jewish Telegrapher
I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN that my great-great-grandfather, Edward Rosewater, was the telegrapher whom Abraham Lincoln assigned to transmit the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.1 I remember my grandmother taking my brothers and me, when I was twelve, into our Uncle Ed's recently vacated bedroom in her Cleveland house. There, she read to us from the letter, framed in black on the wall, her grandfather's description to his future bride of how Pr…
Moyshe-leib Halpern: Painter and Poet
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 ZUTOT 5.1 Also available online – www.brill.nl * I am extremely grateful to Professor Isaac Halpern for his comments, criti- cisms, and invaluable interviews by telephone and email about the artwork of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern. I also thank David Halpern for taking and allowing me to use the photographs in illustrations 3 (green dresser) and 8 (bear lamp). The other illustrations are made from photographs I took at…
The Envy of Yiddish
Early in 1969, a professor of literature, Irving Howe, and a Yiddish poet and critic, Eliezer Greenberg, published an anthology, A Treasury of Yiddish Poetry, gathering new translations of works by almost-forgotten Yiddish poets of Europe and America. Among these translations were several poems by David Einhorn (1886–1973), H. Leivick (1888–1962), and Chaim Grade (1910–1982), brought into English by the young American writer Cynthia Ozick. Later …
China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters
In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here investigate how this exchange of texts and translations, images and ideas, has enriched both Jewish and Chinese cultures and prepared for a global, inclusive world literature. The book breaks new ground…
Art (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · History (5 works) · Judaism (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · History (2 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (2 works)