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A new translation of David Edelshtat’s proletarian poem a shtikele broyt.

Shaina Hammerman is the author of Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews: The Story of an Image. She teaches Jewish cultural history at the University of San Francisco.

Fiddler’s Yiddish translation merits discussion in The New York Times, not as history or metaphor, but as a window into how Jews tell stories about themselves.