Step by step. Contemporary Yiddish poetry. Ediz. multilingue

«Traveling with Yiddish is traveling not just with Yiddish. You look at the landscape of language, and in a wink it turns into culture, history, literature. You talk to it in Yiddish, and it responds with quotes in Hebrew, German, Russian. You cross worlds of geography and demography, Jewish history and modern transformations and, wherever you turn, you realize that you are crossing universal human spaces”.- Benjamin Harshav, The Meaning of Yiddish It is precisely this remarkable and idiosyncratic character of Yiddish, which bridges languages, cultures, “worlds of geography and universal human spaces”, that shines through this anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry. Inspired by Peter Yankl Conzen’s poetry and his deep knowledge of the Yiddish literary tradition, Step by Step. Contemporary Yiddish Poetry brings together the voices of contemporary Yiddish poets from throughout the world.And like the language in which the poems are written, the anthology becomes a symbol of the multifac