Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky

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Copyright © 1999 by Kathryn Hellerstein. Published by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201. All rights are reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without formal permission. Manufactured in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Molodowsky, Kadia, 1894-1975. [Poems. English & Yiddish. Selections] Paper bridges : selected poems of Kadya Molodowsky / translated, edited, and introduced by Kathryn Hellerstein. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8143-2846-6 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-8143-2718-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8143-3829-2 (e-book) 1. Molodowsky, Kadia, 1894-1975—Translations into English, 2. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Poetry. I. Hellerstein, Kathryn. II. Title. PJ5129.M7A25 1999 839'. 113—dc21 98-15479 HE Some of the English translations that appear here have been previously published in earlier versions and sometimes in the context of scholarly articles in the following journals and anthologies: AJS Review 13, nos. 1-2 (1988): 47-79. ("Women-Poems/Songs of Women I-VIII") Bridges 2, no. 1 (spring 1991): 53-61. ("Dzshike Street," "Chronicle," "My Paper Bridge," and "Letters from the Ghetto") Borders, Boundaries and Frames: Cultural Criticism and Cultural Studies, edited by Mae G. Henderson, 64-106. New York: Routledge, 1995. Four Centuries ofJewish Women's Spirituality: A Sourcebook, edited by Ellen M. Umansky and Dianne Ashton, 154-55. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. ("Prayers I, II, III" and "Songs of Women VI") Grove, no. 6 (spring 1982): 36-37. ("Women-Poems/Songs of Women VI") Handbook ofAmerican-Jewish Literature: An Analytical Guide to Topics, Themes, and Sources, edited by Lewis Fried, 195-237. New York: Greenwood, 1988. ("Songs of Women/Women-Poems VI and VIH" and "Fallen Leaves") Imagine 1, no. 1 (summer 1984): 74-75. ("Women-Poems/Songs of Women VHI") Parable and Story in Judaism and Christianity, edited by Clemens Thoma and Michael Wyschogrod, 205-36. New York: Paulist Press, 1989. ("Fallen Leaves II" and "Prayers I, II, and III") Present Tense 8, no. 3 (spring 1981): 50. The Uses ofAdversity: Failure and Accommodation in Reader Response, edited by Ellen Spolsky, 143-52. Lewisburg: Bucknell, and London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1990. Two Lines: The Stanford Translation Journal (spring 1995), issue on "Tracks" ("My Father's Fur Coat") Women in Praise ofthe Sacred: Forty-three Centuries ofSpiritual Poetry by Women, edited byJane Hirshneld, 238. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. ("Prayers I") Yiddish 7, nos. 2-3 (1988): 182-87, 192-94. ("Songs of Women I-VIII" and "Prayers I-III") ...