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Caroline Luce, Author

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Moyshe-Leyb Halpern: Bibliography

The information for this path came from Dr. Julian Levinson, who has written extensively about Halpern's work (see below). Dr. Levinson also assembled the following selected bibliography. If you have any additional information about Halpern that you are interested in contributing, if you have any more information about an item you've seen on our website or if you are the copyright owner and believe our website has not properly attributed your work to you or has used it without permission, we want to hear from you. Please email Mapping Jewish Los Angeles at cjs@humnet.ucla.edu with your contact information and a link to relevant content. 

Works by Halpern (in Yiddish)
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern. In Nyu York. 1919

Moyshe-Leyb Halpern. Di goldene pave. 1924

Moyshe-Leyb Halpern. Moyshe-Leyb Halpern. Volumes 1, 2, 1934. 


Works by Halpern (in English)
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern. In New York. Edited and Translated by Kathryn Hellerstein. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1982.

Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, “Bloodbursts,” “Man That He Is,” “Good Day, Dear Sun,” translated by Kathryn Hellerstein. Yiddish-Modern Jewish Studies: Translations II: Yiddish Verse into English, A Double Issue, Vol. 16, 3- 4 (Queens College, 2010), 46-53.

Benjamin and Barbara Harshav. American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Benjamin and Barbara Harshav. Sing Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry – A Historical Anthology. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2006


Works about Halpern
Jordan Finken. A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature. Penn State University Press, 2010.

Chana Kronfeld. On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Kathryn Hellerstein, "The Demon Within: Moyshe-Leyb Halpern's Subversive Ballads." Prooftexts, Vol. 7 (Fall 1987): 225-248.

Kathryn Hellerstein,“Moyshe-Leyb Halpern: Painter and Poet.” Zutot (Amsterdam), vol. 5, 1 (Spring 2008): 157-177.

Julian Levinson. “On Some Motifs in Moyshe-Leyb Halpern: A Benjaminian Meditation on Yiddish Modernism,” Prooftexts. 32. 1. (2012): 63-88.

Julian Levinson. “Modernism from Below: Moyshe-Leyb Halpern and the Situation of Yiddish Poetry,” Jewish Social Studies, 10.3. (2004): 143-160.

Julian Levinson “A Yiddish Modernist Speaks of Jesus,” Michigan Quarterly Review. Vol. 51, No. 1. (Winter, 2012): 32-40.

David Roskies. “Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish Literary Imagination.” In The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature. Edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher and Michael Kramer. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Ruth Wisse. A Little Love in Big Manhattan: Two Yiddish Poets. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
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a few more items to add to the Bibliography on Moyshe Leyb Halpern

Kathryn Hellerstein, "The Demon Within: Moyshe-Leyb Halpern's Subversive Ballads." Prooftexts, Vol. 7, Fall 1987, pp. 225-248.

Kathryn Hellerstein,“Moyshe-Leyb Halpern: Painter and Poet.” Zutot (Amsterdam), vol. 5, 1 (Spring 2008), 157-177.

Kathryn Hellerstein, translator, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, “Bloodbursts,” “Man That He Is,” “Good Day, Dear Sun.” Yiddish- Modern Jewish Studies: Translations II: Yiddish Verse into English, A Double Issue, Vol. 16, 3- 4 (Queens College, 2010), 46-53.

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