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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Texts & Translation
אַן אָפֿענער בריװ צו יענטע סערדאַצקי
An Open Letter to Yente Serdatsky
Chaim Gutman
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
A translation of Der lebediker’s satirical letter to Yente Serdatsky.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
װײַבעריקום טאַלאַנטיקום אײַנלײַטיגונגס
Womanistic Talentistic Introductionarium
Froym-Leyb Volfson
Translation by David Mazower, Anita Norich and Faith Jones
A translation of Froym-Leyb Volfson’s satirical poem about women writers.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
„מײַן טאַטע פֿאַרברענט מײַנע לידער“ און „דער שרײַבער־באַל...“
“My Father Burns My Poems” and “The Writer’s Ball”
Malka Lee
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
Translations of excerpts from Malka Lee’s memoir, Durkh kindershe oygn.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
צו מײַן ברודער אַבֿרהם רײזען
To My Brother Avrom Reisen
Sarah Reisen
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
A translation of Sarah Reisen’s poem to her brother, Avrom.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
אַ פּאָר שעה אין פֿרױען־װעלט
A Few Hours in Women’s World
Chana Blankshteyn
Translation by Anita Norich, Faith Jones and David Mazower
A translation of Chana Blankshteyn’s repotage on Sore Reyzn’s speech in the Women’s Union in March 1927.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
מײדלעך, פֿרױען, װײַבער—ייִדישע דיכטערינס
Girls, Women, Ladies–Yiddish Poetesses
Melekh Ravitch
Translation by Anita Norich, Faith Jones and David Mazower
A translation of Melech Ravitsh’s “Meydelkh, froyen, vayber—yidishe dikhterins.”
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
מײדלעך, פֿרױען, װײַבער און...נבואה
Girls, Women, Ladies and... Prophecy
Kadya Molodovsky
Translation by Anita Norich, Faith Jones and David Mazower
A translation of Kadya Molodowsky’s response to Melech Ravitsh’s article about women writers.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
פֿראַדל שטאָק
Fradl Shtok
Rokhl Auerbach
Translation by Anita Norich, David Mazower and Faith Jones
A translation of Rokhl Auerbach’s review of Fradl Shtok’s short story collection.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
אַ קוש
A Kiss
Celia Dropkin
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
A translation of Celia Dropkin’s “A kush.”
Nov 19, 2023
Blog
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
Pedagogy
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.
Mar 30, 2021
Blog
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