“Glatstein”
Texts & Translation
רויך
Smoke
Jacob Glatstein
Translation by Hershl Hartman
A standalone poem by Jacob Glatstein
Nov 09, 2017
Texts & Translation
נישגוט־לאַפּיטוט האָט פֿאַרלױרן דעם מוט
Goblin Nogood Has Run Out of Clout
Jacob Glatstein
Translation by Jeffrey Shandler
A new translation of Jacob Glatstein's powerful and playful 1943 children's poem.
Nov 09, 2017
Blog
A Writer in the Spa: Identifying Jacob Glatstein’s Protagonist
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
In his novel Ven Yash iz gekumen, Jacob Glatstein wrote a Poland both familiar and strange, and peopled it with characters based on the real-life literary figures and historians he met in the spa town of Nałęczów.
Jan 25, 2017
Texts & Translation
אַ ייִדישע היסטאָריקערין פֿון לובלין
A Jewish Historian from Lublin
Jacob Glatstein
Translation by Sunny S. Yudkoff and Saul Noam Zaritt
Jacob Glatstein reminisces about the spa town of Nałęczów and about Bella Mandelsberg, a young historian he met there.
Jan 23, 2017
Blog
Yiddish, Translation, and a World Literature To-Come
Saul Noam Zaritt
In geveb's founding editor discusses different models of Yiddish in relation to world literature through the figures of Sholem Asch and Jacob Glatstein.
Jan 23, 2017
Texts & Translation
דער מאַרש צו די גױים
The March to the Goyim
Jacob Glatstein
Translation by Saul Noam Zaritt
A no-holds-barred essay from Jacob Glatstein on publishing, translation, and world literature.
Jan 23, 2017
Texts & Translation
סאַקאָ און וואַנזעטיס מאָנטיק
Sacco and Vanzetti’s Monday
Jacob Glatstein
Translation by Lawrence Rosenwald
A poem about Sacco and Vanzetti, originally published the day before their execution.
May 24, 2016
Texts & Translation
קיביאַ
Qibya
Jacob Glatstein
Translation by Adi Mahalel
A new translation of Jacob Glatstein's 1956 poem about the "Qibya affair."
Feb 21, 2016
Article
Auden Can Wait: Introducing the Academic Section of In geveb
Sunny S. Yudkoff
What is Yiddish Studies? We inaugurate In geveb with a symposium on the state of the field, where a cross-section of scholars identify the pressing questions of Yiddish Studies.
Aug 14, 2015