Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium: 1900-1970Part literary history and part medical sociology, Gilman's book chronicles the careers of three major immigrant Yiddish poets of the twentieth century Solomon Bloomgarten (Yehoash), Sholem Shtern, and H. Leivick all of whom lived through, and wrote movingly of, their experience as patients in a tuberculosis sanatorium. Gilman addresses both the formative influence of the sanatorium on the writers' work and the culture of an institution in which,