“Kulbak”
Review
Review of Moyshe Kulbak's Ale lider un poemen, edited by Siarhej Šupa
Claire Le Foll
In two volumes, Siarhej Šupa brings Moyshe Kulbak's complete poetry to readers in the Yiddish original, Belarusian translation, and Latin transliteration.
Apr 29, 2024
Review
Review of Childe Harold of Dysna by Moyshe Kulbak, translated by Robert Adler Peckerar
Harriet Murav
Moyshe Kulbak’s Childe Harold of Dysna—a novel in verse that is inspired by Lord Byron and dramatizes the character of the Jewish flaneur—charms, delights, and brings a gentle sorrow.
Oct 31, 2021
Review
Strangers in Berlin by Rachel Seelig
Sunny S. Yudkoff
Seelig's new book explores the city of Berlin during the Weimar period as a "transit station" for Jewish literature written in German, Yiddish, and Hebrew.
Apr 26, 2017
Blog
Translating the Iceberg: Reflections on the Possibilities of In geveb’s Texts & Translations Section
Madeleine Cohen
In geveb's Managing Editor for Translations reflects on the need and possibilities for translating the archives of Yiddish culture, in addition to the greats of its literature.
May 10, 2016
Blog
A Clan on the Move: A Zelmenyaner Family Tree
Sasha Senderovich and David Coons
How to make sense of a family saga that charts the very creation of the Soviet Jew: begin by making a family tree.
Oct 13, 2015
Review
“To what might the yard have been compared?”
Madeleine Cohen
"Ach, the things a poor tailor has lived to see! We live in times when the coats go around making themselves." A review of a recent translation of Kulbak's Zelmenyaner.
Oct 11, 2015