Women in Translation

Review

New Resources for Studying Jewish Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe

Marion Aptroot

Two new publications offer rich and engaging material for the further exploration of Jewish life in early modern Europe.

May 24, 2021

early modern

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

Review

Diary of a Lonely Girl: A Queer Reading

Faith Jones

Oct 11, 2020

Texts & Translation

צוויי לידער

Two Poems

Miryam Ulinover

Translation by Mindy Liberman

Two poems by Miryam Ulinover, translated by Mindy Liberman.

Jun 01, 2020

Poetry

Women in Translation

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

Women in Translation

American Yiddish Literature

American Jews

family history

Texts & Translation

דרײַ לידער

Three Poems

Sarah Reisen

Translation by Eli Jany

Three poems by Sarah Reisen.

May 12, 2020

Poetry

Women in Translation

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

translation

Women in Translation

Texts & Translation

שרעק

Fear

Chana Blankshteyn

Translation by Anita Norich

A Short story from author, editor and activist Chana Blankshteyn.

Mar 30, 2020

Short Story

Women in Translation

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

queer and trans studies

Texts & Translation

צוויי לידער

Two Poems

Celia Dropkin

Translation by Shoshana Olidort

Two poems by Celia Dropkin

Oct 10, 2018

Poetry

Women in Translation

American Yiddish Literature

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

Poetry

Women in Translation

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