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Naomi Seidman reflects on having translated Jonathan Boyarin’s Yiddish Science and the Postmodern and asks: what power does Yiddish have in our world of nonstop chatter, of ubiquitous and generalized marginality, of planetary precarity?

Ben Sadock is an editor and independent scholar.

Our editorial team discusses/debates our guidelines for translating and transliterating place names from the Yiddish.

In honor of Purim, a fine calligraphed scroll of Yehoash’s translation into Yiddish of the Book of Esther, completed by the poet’s daughter Chava.