For years, Samuel Ullman (1840-1924) and his prose poem "Youth" have been known and admired by the Japanese. However, both the man and his work are largely unknown in the United States, even in ...

By including a selection of Ullman’s other, less famous, poems, as well as biographical details, “Samuel Ullman and ‘Youth’” establishes the crucial role Ullman’s Jewishness played in ...

In his most memorable poem, “Youth,” Samuel Ullman said: “Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the will, ...