“Women in Translation”
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide to Kadya Molodovsky's A Jewish Refugee in New York trans. Anita Norich
Lizy Mostowski
A teaching guide for Kadya Molodovsky's A Jewish Refugee in New York (trans. Anita Norich) in the context of refugee literatures.
Apr 05, 2021
Review
Sewn with the Tiniest of Pearls
Jessica Kirzane
Murphy’s translations of Perl’s stories allow us to appreciate an ever more colorful canvas of modern Yiddish literature.
Feb 28, 2021
Texts & Translation
צוויי לידער
Two Poems
Miryam Ulinover
Translation by Mindy Liberman
Two poems by Miryam Ulinover, translated by Mindy Liberman.
Jun 01, 2020
Blog
Dora Schulner's Last Notebook
Nicholas Heskes
Heskes explores the contents of a slim, blue-leathered notebook he found in his parents' garage. The notebook belonged to his grandmother’s mother, the Yiddish writer Dora Schulner.
May 28, 2020
Texts & Translation
דרײַ לידער
Three Poems
Sarah Reisen
Translation by Eli Jany
Three poems by Sarah Reisen.
May 12, 2020
Blog
Translating and Teaching Yiddish Prose by Women
Anita Norich
It is time to stop lamenting the paucity of available Yiddish prose works by women and, instead, to translate more and to use the wealth of material that is already available.
Apr 02, 2020
Texts & Translation
שרעק
Fear
Chana Blankshteyn
Translation by Anita Norich
A Short story from author, editor and activist Chana Blankshteyn.
Mar 30, 2020
Interview
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays: An Interview with Goldie Morgentaler
Matthew Johnson and Corbin Allardice
Matthew Johnson and Corbin Allardice talk with Goldie Morgentaler, Chava Rosenfarb’s daughter and editor and translator of a recently published collection of Rosenfarb's essays.
Jan 27, 2020
Blog
Northern Voices: New Yiddish Song in Sweden
Jewlia Eisenberg
Eisenberg reviews Shtoltse Lider, a multimedia stage show, with songs in Yiddish and English, and explanations and evocations in Swedish, from Swedish duo Ida and Louise.
Jun 25, 2019
Review
Review of Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry by Zohar Weiman-Kelman
Shoshana Olidort
Jun 13, 2019
Texts & Translation
צוויי לידער
Two Poems
Celia Dropkin
Translation by Shoshana Olidort
Two poems by Celia Dropkin
Oct 10, 2018
Texts & Translation
דער טױער־מאָטיװ אין דער בוך־קונסט
The Motif of the Porch
Rachel Wischnitzer
Translation by Rachelle Grossman and Saul Noam Zaritt
Milgroym editor Rachel Wischnitzer's essay on illustrated Hebrew manuscripts
Jun 06, 2018
Texts & Translation
באַלײדיקט
Wounded
Malka Lee
Translation by Maia Evrona
A new translation of Malka Lee's "Baleydikt" from her 1932 collection Lider.
May 01, 2018
Review
Die Geometrie des Verzichts: Deborah Vogel's poetry, essays, and letters in a new German translation and compilation
Anastasiya Lyubas
This volume, edited and translated by Anna Maja Misiak, is the first edition of Debora Vogel’s work in any language to include all of her prose and poetry.
Mar 06, 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
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
Review
Nothing Backwards about the Forward's New Anthology
Eileen Pollack
The new anthology of stories published in The Forward has more than a few gems, Eileen Pollack reviews.
Nov 30, 2016
Texts & Translation
"איר שמייכל", "אַ מענטש"
"Her Smile" and "A Man"
Anna Margolin
Translation by Joseph Kary
New translations of two poems from Anna Margolin's lider.
Nov 08, 2016
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