Tradition and Revolt in Yiddish Poetry

Abraham Tabachnik

1950

As Yiddish poetry grew more modern, even modernistic, as it grew freer in rhythm, subtler in tonality, more artful and sophisticated in imagery, it also grew more Jewish—I was almost going to say more Hasidic, in the Reb Nachman Bratzlaver sense of the word. The very first revolt in Yiddish poetry, that of the “Yunge,” was expressed in a turning…

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Abraham Tabachnik

1901–1970

Born near Mogilev-Podolski, Ukraine, writer and critic Abraham Tabachnik immigrated in 1921 to the United States, where he began contributing widely to the Yiddish-language leftist journals of the day. Tabachnik attended the Jewish Teachers’ Seminary in the 1920s and afterward pursued a career in journalism, working as a translator and editor for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from 1941 until his death. He remained a committed Yiddishist throughout his life, and in the 1950s he edited the Yiddish literary journal Vogshol (Scale) and recorded several interviews with major Yiddish authors.

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