In the Grip of Cross-Currents EPHRAIM LISITZKY POETRY

Description: In the Grip of Cross-Currents ENGLISH VG CONDITION, HARDCOVER In the Grip of Cross-CurrentsTranslated from the Hebrew by Moshe Kohn and Jacob Sloan and revised by the author. xiv + 306 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece Poetry of Ephraim E. Lisitzsky LISITZKY, EPHRAIM E. (1885–1962), U.S. Hebrew poet and educator. Born in Minsk, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 15. In 1918, after peregrinations which took him to Boston, New York, Central Canada, Buffalo, and Milwaukee, he finally settled in New Orleans, where he spent the rest of his life. He became principal of the city's Hebrew School, one of the best in the United States. Lisitzky was a prolific Hebrew poet. Though not marked by originality, he made lasting contributions to the thematic wealth of Hebrew literature. Medurot Do'akhot ("Dying Campfires," 1937), a story of two Indian tribes, is based on Indian legends and contains fine descriptions of the American landscape. It is written in the unrhymed trochaic tetrameter of Hiawatha and Kalevala. Out of black folktales and folk songs, sermons and spirituals, habits and customs, he composed Be-Oholei Kush ("In the Tents of Cush," 1953). In his narrative poem Ki-Teko'a Shofar (1922) he contrasts the spiritual aridity of the small town American Jew with the deep religiosity of Eastern European Jewry (Shirim (1928), 241–80). His dramatic poem Naftulei Elohim (1934), despite some happy phrases, must be considered a failure, overburdened with the poet's mythological inventions and with Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist doctrine. Similarly unsuccessful is Bi-Ymei Sho'ah u-Mesho'ah (1960), which deals with the European Holocaust. Lisitzky's occasional articles on literature and educational matters in the Hebrew press were collected in his book, Bi-Shevilei Ḥayyim ve-Sifrut (1961). Lisitzky's reputation will ultimately rest on his moving autobiography Elleh Toledot Adam (1949; In the Grip of Cross-Currents, 1959), his book of black poems, and his Indian epic. We have over 500,000 books of Jewish interest in Stock, please make sure to check out our Our eBay Store Questions, comments, Requests? WE CAN BE REACHED AT 347ll78G492!!14G6508!14 Our storefront location is at Mizrahi Book Store 3108 Quentin Rd Brooklyn NY 11234 Visitors welcome during business hours COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNTS: There is $4 off each additional item paid for and shipped together, which makes the shipping just .99 for almost all additional items. Please note that purchases must be paid for at once, not individually to qualify for the discount. If you plan on adding additional items, please hold off payment until done purchasing. This discount should be deducted automatically, please contact us if for some reason it does not. 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