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Chief Editor Saul Noam Zaritt introduces our series of essays reflecting on the state of Yiddish translation.

Myra Mniewski, a Litvak born in Łódź, is a translator, teacher, writer and poet currently living in NYC and Cochecton, NY.

In the second essay in our series of reflections on translating Yiddish in the twenty-first century, Sarah Ponichtera thinks about how we can bring a sense of materiality to our translations.

A new translation of a nineteenth century chapbook detailing the comic adventures of a woman named Bintshe and her mission to save a dilapidated bathhouse.