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Trans­la­tion into Eng­lish adds anoth­er lay­er to the inter­twined lega­cy of trans­la­tion and migra­tion in the works pre­sent­ed in this recent volume.

Jun 11, 2024

A roundup of trans­la­tions pub­lished in 2023. 

Feb 02, 2024

A lyri­cal essay on rela­tion­ships between a trans­la­tor and pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tions: Liba Augen­feld, a native Yid­dish speak­er who lived in Vil­na before the Holo­caust and could share lin­guis­tic and cul­tur­al knowl­edge she knew first hand, and the trans­la­tor’s own moth­er who had a con­flict­ed rela­tion­ship with Yiddish.

May 25, 2023

A inter­view dis­cussing a project to pub­lish crit­i­cal edi­tions, in Pol­ish, of 25 of the most impor­tant mem­oirs culled from a larg­er col­lec­tion of his­tor­i­cal Pol­ish Jew­ish mem­oirs and auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal sources.

Jan 31, 2023

A roundup of trans­la­tions pub­lished in 2022. 

Jan 26, 2023

An inter­view with Pol­ish poet and musi­cian Grze­gorz Kwiatkowski.

Nov 02, 2022

This August, Nay­dus Press pub­lished Toward Hope­ful Skies, a trilin­gual (Yid­dish, Ukrain­ian, Eng­lish) vol­ume of two works of chil­dren’s poet­ry, as a ben­e­fit vol­ume to sup­port the refugee reset­tle­ment agency HIAS’s work with refugees from Ukraine.

Oct 26, 2022

Oct 24, 2022

In this con­ver­sa­tion the Yid­dish trans­la­tor John Karls­son from Swe­den dis­cuss­es his most recent project, a trans­la­tion of Yosl Bir­shteyn sto­ries into Swedish.

Apr 25, 2022

A roundup of trans­la­tions pub­lished in 2021. 

Jan 13, 2022