Faith Jones is the co-translator of The Acrobat by Celia Dropkin, and has recently completed a translation of Shira Gorshman's short stories. She is a librarian in Vancouver, Canada
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How to Suppress Yiddish Women’s Writing
Faith Jones
Joanna Russ’ 1983 schematic of strategies and dynamics that suppress women’s writing — along with some additions specific to modern Yiddish culture — helps explain both the historical suppression of Yiddish women writers and more recent challenges to feminist scholarship on women’s Yiddish writing. Faith Jones guides us to make the Yiddish future together, and to make our place in it.
May 31, 2022
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The Yudika Variations: Translating b’Chevrusa
Faith Jones and Annie Sommer Kaufman
The authors describe an exercise in which they translate and re-translate the same text into different formats.
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The Real First Translation of Bashevis into English!
Faith Jones
Think you know when Bashevis was first translated into English? Think again!
Sep 20, 2015