Kathryn Hellerstein teaches Yiddish as associate professor in the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky and Jewish American Literature: a Norton Anthology.

Introduction
1. The Idea of a Literary Tradition
2. Old Poems in a Modern Anthology
3. Revolution, Prayers, and Sisterhood in Interwar Poland
4. The Folk and the Book: Miriam Ulinover and Roza Yakubovitsh
5. The Art of Sex: Celia Dropkin and Anna Margolin
6. Prayer-Poems against History: Kadya Molodowsky and Malka Heifetz Tussman
Conclusion

Kathryn Hellerstein teaches Yiddish as associate professor in the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky and Jewish American Literature: a Norton Anthology.