Menke Katz (1906—1991)
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“Simbolízm — elemént un metód. Diskúsye artíkl”

[Symbolism: As Element or Method. An Article for Discussion]
in Signál (ed. William Abrams, Aaron Kurtz, B. Fenster), May 1935.
     
    “Der bráver pakhdn”
[The Brave Coward. Manifesto for a Yiddish poetry free of political interference + four poems]
in the Fráyhayt (ed. M. Olgin), 14 August 1938.
     
    Preface to
Ben Yomen, Zing mayn folk! Published by Itche V. Biderman, New York 1946, p. 3.
     

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    “A Word or Two”
[introduction to the first issue of Bitterroot, Fall 1962, p. 2]
     

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    “A Word or Two Against Rhyme”
[inaugural essay of the Aspects of Modern Poetry series]
in Poet Lore, 1966.
     

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“A bisl Mikhálishker loshn un folklór”
[Some Language and Folklore from Michaleshik]
in Yídishe shprakh (ed. Mordkhe Schaechter), vol. 35, 1976, pp. 54-60.
     
   
“A vort vegn ortográfye”
[A Word about Orthography]
in Menke Katz, Tsfas [Safad], 1979, pp. 7-10.
     
   
“A vort vegn férz-takt in der yídisher poézye” [A Word on Poetic Foot in Yiddish Poetry] and
“Mayn eygn vort vegn férz-takt”
[My Own Word on Poetic Foot]
in Menke Katz, Tsfas [Safad], 1979, pp. 84-93.
     
   
“The Greatest Sex Story Ever Told”
in Pulpsmith (ed. Harry J. Smith), vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 1981, pp. 183-186.
     
   
“How Daughter-in-Law Turned a Trick on Judah”
in Pulpsmith (ed. Harry J. Smith), vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 1981, pp. 154-157.
     
   
Preface to
Norman Andrew Kirk, Panda Zoo. A Bitterroot Book. West of Boston: Wayland, Massachusetts, 1983, pp. 7–8.
     
   
“Mayn kháver Yosl Grínshpan”
[My Friend Yosl Greenspan]
in Yídishe kultúr (ed. Itche Goldberg), vol. 49, no. 7-8 (July-August 1987), pp. 57-60.
     

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“Menke Katz, 1906–” [=Autobiography]
in Contemporary Authors. Autobiography Series (ed. Mark Zadrozny), vol. 9 (1989), pp. 49-71.
     
   
“Dilon [Zhuravitski], Avrom-Moyshe” and “Grinshpan, Yosl”
in The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture (ed. Glenda Abramson), 1989, pp. 174-175, 288-289.
     

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“Zéygermakheráy in Mikháleshik” [Watchmaking in Michaleshik]
in Óksforder yídish (ed. Dovid Katz), vol. 1 (1990), pp. 233-245.
     

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“Form in poézye un natúr” [Form in Poetry and Nature]
in Óksforder yídish (ed. Dovid Katz), vol. 2 (1991), pp. 161-170.
     

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“Amol iz geven a mayse: Zikhroynes fun Svintsyan un Mikhaleshik”[Stories that Happened: Memories of Svintsyan (Svencionys) and Michaleshik (Michalishki)]
in Yiddish Pen (ed. Dovid Katz), no. 21 (1996), pp. 25-31.
     
   
“Makhshóves fun a nyu-yórker yídishn poét un lérer”
[Reflections of a New York Yiddish Poet and Teacher]
in Yídishe kultúr (ed. Itche Goldberg), vol. 63, no. 5-6 (Nov-Dec 2001) & vol. 64, no. 1-2 (Jan-Feb 2002), pp. 55-58.
     
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