CONTRIBUTOR

Aharon Varady

Aharon Varady is the founding director and primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project. A community planner (University of Cincinnati/DAAP) and Jewish educator (JTSA/William Davidson School of Education), his work promoting open-source Judaism has been written about in the Yiddish Forverts, the Atlantic Magazine, and Haaretz. If you find any egregious mistakes in his work, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). To directly support his work, donations can be made via his Patreon account.

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Texts & Translation

געשטאַלטן װאָס זוכן תּיקון: העלענאַ פֿראַנק

Figures in Need of Rehabilitation: Helena Frank

Jacob Glatstein

Translation by Aharon Varady

Aharon Varady profiles the first Yiddish-to-English translator, Helena Frank, drawing on archival sources and the translation of a tribute by Jacob Glatstein. 

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