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Hannah Pollin-Galay is Associate Professor of Yiddish and Holocaust Studies in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University.

Joshua Price is a lector in Yiddish at Yale. He received a Ph.D. in Yiddish Studies from Columbia in 2020, with a dissertation on the translation of world literature into Yiddish in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In this 1910 essay, Chaim Zhitlowsky examines how the translation of works of world literature into Yiddish can be a way to establish Yiddish as a kultur-shprakh, a language as modern and expressive as European languages.