JEWISH-AMERICAN AND ANGLO-JEWISH POETRY IN CONTEXT

<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>JEWISH-AMERICAN AND ANGLO-JEWISH POETRY IN CONTEXT</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="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="COMING HERE: The Poetry of JewishAmerica"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Coming Here</B></U></A><B> </B></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></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="id99.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IMMIGRATION: Jewish Womens Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f099000000.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="Symb075c00b700f099000000.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>Jewish-American and Anglo-Jewish Poetry in Context</B></I></div> <bR> <div>      Jewish immigrants from continental Europe have come to the United States and Britain, seeking respite from persecution. The writers of each group have faced issues of assimilation and tradition in ways that reflect their group's particular history and the culture of the host nation.  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>      Yet Anglo-Jewish and Jewish-American literary strategies, imagery, and tone diverge sharply: Anglo-Jews feel the pressures of the Spanish Inquisition more keenly,  while American Jews idealize the United States for its constitutionally guaranteed religious liberties; both groups wrestle with national institutions  (government, universities, the military).  </div> <bR> <div> Readings from <I><B>Penina Moise, Grace Aguilar, Marion Moss, Amy Levy, Isaac Rosenberg, Howard Nemerov, Karl Shapiro,  and Karen Gershon</B></I>, among others.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>