COMING HERE: The Poetry of Jewish-American Immigration

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="039f0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B>COMING HERE: The Poetry of Jewish-American Immigration</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="038f2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="lecture_teaching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults"><U><B>Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teenager Education Topics "><U><B>Teenager Education Topics</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IMMIGRATION AND ACCULTURATION"><U><B>Immigration and Acculturation</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JEWS AND THE CITIES: Out of the Ghetto,"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jews and the Cities</B></U></A><B>y</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BETWEEN GENERATIONS: New Families in New"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Between Generations</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="EMMA LAZARUS (18491887): Writing As a Je"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Emma Lazarus</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SYNAGOGUE, CHURCH, AND UNIVERSITY: Assi"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Synagogue, Church and University</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id87.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JEWS, WAR, AND THE MILITARY"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jews, War, and the Military</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JEWISHAMERICAN AND ANGLOJEWISH POETRY IN"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jewish-American and Anglo-Jewish Poetry in Context</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id99.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IMMIGRATION: Jewish Womens Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jewish Women's Poetry</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact JEWISH VOICES"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Contact JEWISH VOICES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Voices 200 Years of Jewish Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03bf0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Coming Here: The Poetry of Jewish American Immigration</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div>      Since the 1700s, five "waves" of Jewish immigrants from Europe have come to the United States, having suffered different persecutions.  The poets have faced issues of assimilation and tradition in ways that reflect  their group's particular history.  </div> <div>      But they have all made "new songs" in a "strange land," mastering the English language, devising new poetic forms and imagery to represent their experience and the emotional life of Jewry in the English-speaking diaspora.  </div> <div>      They have written with vivid, cunning intensity to make a place for their collective presence in Christian America.  </div> <bR> <div>      Writings by <I><B>Penina Moise, David Plotkin, Alter Brody, Howard Nemerov, Harvey Shapiro, Karl Shapiro, Stewart Florsheim, Adrienne Rich, Maxine Kumin, Lisa Ress</B></I>, others.  Important readings from Anglo-Jews, whose civic and historical situation differs dramatically, for comparative purposes.<B> </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>