The Ghetto, and Other Poems by Lola Ridge bilingual the dictionary emphasizes Yiddish as

the dictionary emphasizes Yiddish as a living language that is spoken in many places around the world

beyond the heyday of a Yiddish stage that was nearly eradicated by the Holocaust

and interviews family members

whether you're a deli expert or just find yourself wondering where bagels (or babka

as seen in her preference for free verse and sparing use of rhyme

The Ghetto, and Other Poems by Lola Ridge bilingual the dictionary emphasizes Yiddish asAt last recovered in this enriching annotated edition, this important but neglected work of American modernism offers a unique poetic encounter with the Jewish communities in New Yorks Lower East Side. Long forgotten on account of her gender and left wing politics, Lola Ridge is finally being rediscovered and read alongside such celebrated contemporaries as Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Mooreall of whom knew her and admired her