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Ben Kline

Ben Kline is a translator living in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked with Yiddishkayt in Los Angeles, as a participant and later a co-leader of their Helix Fellowship trips to Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. He also curated Yiddishkayt's Juxtapoetry essay series, which featured his original translations from Yiddish, Spanish, Arabic, and Belarusian. By day he works as an immigration attorney.

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אַ װאָרט אין דעם שטרײַט: ייִדיש, העברעיִש, שלום אַש

A Word in Edgewise: Yiddish, Hebrew, and Sholem Asch

Yisroel Rabon

Translation by Ben Kline

Yisroel Rabon weighs in on language debates among Yiddishists in the wake of Sholem Asch’s visit to Palestine in 1936. 

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