Texts & Translations

New translations into English of Yiddish language materials including poetry, stories, essays, and archival materials of all kinds. Original Yiddish texts are presented in a standardized orthography and are fully searchable.

Texts & Translation

די שמוגלערין

The Smuggler Girl

A grip­ping sto­ry by Rosa Palat­nik about a girl smug­gling goods over the Gali­cian border. 

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איך װאָלט געאװאָלט אַמאָל דײַן מאַמען זען

I Would Have Liked to See Your Mother Once

Reflec­tions on moth­er­hood in its absence — in time for Moth­er’s Day.

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אַ פּורים־מלכּה

A Purim Queen

A short sto­ry by Rosa Palat­nik about two Purim pageants set in Poland and Brazil. 

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טעג אין טורמע

Prison Time

A sto­ry by union leader Ben Gold (18981985) based on his expe­ri­ence of forty days in a Delaware prison. 

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קערנדלעך װײץ

Grains of Wheat

A new, dynam­ic trans­la­tion of Abra­ham Sutzkev­er’s poem about the bur­ial and regen­er­a­tion of the Jew­ish word.” 

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די מאַלינע

The Hideaway

An excerpt from Avrom Nokhem Sten­cl’s mem­oirs of urban wan­der­ing in Weimar Berlin. 

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די אורחים אין דוראַטשישאָק

The Guests in Duratshishok

Ayzik Meir Dik’s satir­i­cal sto­ry about the week­end two Jew­ish pro­fes­sion­als (a won­der­work­er and a can­tor) came to stay in the town of Duratshishok. 

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די זילבערנע לײַכטערס

The Silver Candlesticks

Sonia Gol­lance trans­lates Arciszewska’s poem about Yom Kip­pur can­dles and post­war memory. 

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דער לײב־באַצװינגער אין דער ייִדישער קונסט

The Lion Tamer in Jewish Art

Sasha Hoff­man trans­lates Rachel Wish­nitzer Bern­stein’s essay on the theme of the lion tamer in Jew­ish art. 

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ס’געוויין פֿון הונגעריקע קינדער

The Cry of Hungry Children

Tal Hev­er-Chy­bows­ki trans­lates Yoy­sef Papy­ernikov’s The Cry of Hun­gry Chil­dren” for In geve­b’s ongo­ing series on Yid­dish lit­er­ary respons­es to the war. 

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