“Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
Texts & Translation
וועגן דעם ווערט פֿון איבערזעצונגען
On the Worth of Translations
Chaim Zhitlowsky
Translation by Joshua Price
In this 1910 essay, Chaim Zhitlowsky examines how the translation of works of world literature into Yiddish can be a way to establish Yiddish as a kultur-shprakh, a language as modern and expressive as European languages.
Aug 11, 2015