“Short Story”
Review
Review of In the Land of the Postscript by Chava Rosenfarb, trans. Morgentaler
Shelley Pomerance
Nov 08, 2023
Review
Review of From the Jewish Provinces by Fradl Shtok, translated by Jordan D. Finkin and Allison Schachter
Sonia Gollance
From the Jewish Provinces is a valuable and highly readable addition to Yiddish literature in translation.
Dec 15, 2022
Pedagogy
Translating a Text on Racist Violence as a Yiddish Student
Giovanna Truong
As a final project in a course on "Reading Yiddish" at Yale University, Giovanna Truong took on the challenge of translating Aaron Meisel's "The Death of Ted Dennis."
Oct 19, 2022
Texts & Translation
דער משפּט
The Judgment
Joseph Opatoshu
Translation by Moyshe Stewart
A sinister children's story by Joseph Opatoshu.
Apr 21, 2022
Texts & Translation
A Life in Peril (Scenes from the South)
Yerakhmiel Lazarson
Translation by Josh Parshall
A short vignette, taken from a collection of children’s literature published in 1933, exploring anti-Black violence.
Jun 24, 2021
Texts & Translation
אַ קאַפּיטל כעלמער געשיכטע
The Rise and Fall of King Vaizatha of Chelm or How Chelm Remained Penniless
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Translation by David Stromberg
A previously untranslated Chelm story from Isaac Bashevis Singer on the legendary king of Chelm.
Dec 21, 2020
Texts & Translation
די „פּאָליטישע עקאָנאָמיע“ פֿון כעלם
The Political Economy of Chelm
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Translation by David Stromberg
A previously untranslated Chelm story from Isaac Bashevis Singer, a humoristic exploration of experimental economic systems in the legendary city of fools.
Dec 21, 2020
Texts & Translation
בעטהאָװענס לבֿנה־סאָנאַטע
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata
Sh. Bastomski
Translation by Alex Weiser
A children’s tale, written by Shloyme Bastomski and telling the fictionalized origin story of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Nov 24, 2020
Texts & Translation
שרעק
Fear
Chana Blankshteyn
Translation by Anita Norich
A Short story from author, editor and activist Chana Blankshteyn.
Mar 30, 2020
Texts & Translation
פֿון לאַנד שװינדזוכט
From The Land of Consumption
Shloyme Gilbert
Translation by A. C. Weaver and David Weaver
Shloyme Gilbert's haunting, atmospheric vignette based on his own experiences in a sanatorium.
Nov 13, 2019
Texts & Translation
אַ שאלה
A Problem
Joseph Opatoshu
Translation by Zeke Levine and Raphael Halff
Short story from Milgroym issue 6
Jul 01, 2019
Texts & Translation
אַ סוד
A Secret
Joseph Opatoshu
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
Short story from Milgroym issue 4
Jul 01, 2019
Texts & Translation
ייִדישיסטן
Yiddishists
Der Tunkeler
Translation by Ri J. Turner
A humoristic monologue from Der Tunkeler about Yiddishism.
Mar 20, 2019
Texts & Translation
לעצטע מעשׂים־טובֿים פֿון אַ טאָמײטע
A Tomato's Last Good Deeds
Getsl Selikovitch
Translation by Michael Shapiro
If you thought Shloyme Gilbert's "Monologue of a Dog" was strange, wait until you read Getsl Selikovitsh's tomato monologue.
Nov 21, 2018
Texts & Translation
די גרינע עפּעלעך פֿון גן־עדן
Green Apples from the Garden of Eden
Boris Sandler
Translation by Jordan Kutzik
From Boris Sandler's 1997 collection Toyern (Gateways): a story in which an immigrant's reminiscences are so vivid they all but blur the border between dreams and time travel.
Oct 24, 2018
Texts & Translation
הונגער: אַ מאָנאָלאָג פֿון אַ הונט
Hunger: Monologue of a Dog
Shloyme Gilbert
Translation by Zuzanna Łapa and Jack Ford
Shloyme Gilbert's tale of hardship and alienation, narrated by a dog.
Jun 18, 2018
Texts & Translation
ברוך דיין אמת
Blessed is the True Judge
Leon Kobrin
Translation by Jessica Kirzane
A short story from Leon Kobrin's 1903 collection Geto dramen.
May 30, 2018
Texts & Translation
אַ טאַנץ
A Dance
Fradel Shtok
Translation by Sonia Gollance
A sweatshop worker finds temporary respite from reality at a relative's wedding.
Dec 03, 2017
Article
A Dance: Fradel Shtok Reconsidered
Sonia Gollance
Gollance reconsiders Fradel Shtok’s oeuvre and literary reception in the context of her translation of Shtok's short story “A tants” (A dance).
Dec 03, 2017
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Blume Lempel's "The Debt" (trans Cassedy and Taub)
Jennifer Kronovet
The third in a series of teaching guides, this one for Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Taub's translation of Blume Lempel's story "The Debt."
Sep 28, 2017
Texts & Translation
דער חובֿ
The Debt
Blume Lempel
Translation by Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
An exclusive extract from Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel.
Sep 25, 2016
Texts & Translation
לינטשערײַ
A Lynching
Joseph Opatoshu
Translation by Jessica Kirzane
The gritty, and controversial 1920s account of a lynching by Joseph Opatoshu.
Jun 21, 2016
Texts & Translation
רב דוד
Reb Dovid
Jonah Rosenfeld
Translation by Rachel Mines
A young woman struggles with her relationship to her father and to her future as an "old maid" in this new translation of Jonah Rosenfeld's story.
Dec 15, 2015