“Sutzkever”

We are discovering that the story of Yiddish in Palestine/Israel is vast, complex, and utterly fascinating, and it’s being written not (yet) by a novelist or filmmaker, but by a group of scholars, librarians, archivists, and translators who stitch the narrative together like a patchwork. Gali Drucker Bar-Am’s book—published in Hebrew in 2021 and in English translation in 2024—adds an important chapter to the story.

Evgenia Batsevitsky is an English teacher and editor-in-chief of Iberzets, where she curates, translates, and promotes the bridge between Yiddish and Hebrew literature for a modern audience.