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.
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"בלי קדיש“ או "דער לעבעדיקער יתום"
"Kaddish Denied" or "The Living Orphan"
Avrohom Eliyohu Plotkin served as the rabbi of Ostashkov, a provincial town midway between Moscow and Leningrad, after the Russian Revolution, at a time when the Jewish Sections (Evsektsiia) of the Communist Party — supported by other agents of the Soviet state — were forcibly closing all the institutions that made Jewish religious life possible. In 1927, Rayatz was arrested in Leningrad and sentenced to death. An international pressure campaign secured a commutation and safe passage to Latvia. “Kaddish Denied” is a semi-autobiographical tale that unfolds in the aftermath of Rayatz’s arrest and departure.
Apr 11, 2024
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דער טאַטע איז געקומען שלאָפֿן
Papa Came Home to Sleep
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New Yiddish Poetry from the Israel-Gaza War
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הירשקע גליק
Hirshke Glik
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מײדלעך, פֿרױען, װײַבער און...נבואה
Girls, Women, Ladies and... Prophecy
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מײדלעך, פֿרױען, װײַבער—ייִדישע דיכטערינס
Girls, Women, Ladies–Yiddish Poetesses
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אַ פּאָר שעה אין פֿרױען־װעלט
A Few Hours in Women’s World
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צו מײַן ברודער אַבֿרהם רײַזען
To My Brother Avrom Reisen
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„מײַן טאַטע פֿאַרברענט מײַנע לידער“ און „דער שרײַבער־באַל...“
"My Father Burns My Poems" and "The Writer's Ball"
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װײַבעריקום טאַלאַנטיקום אײַנלײַטיגונגס
Womanistic Talentistic Introductionarium