“Women in Translation”

Two poems by Miryam Ulinover, translated by Mindy Liberman.

Jun 01, 2020

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

Three poems by Sarah Reisen.

May 12, 2020

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

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

Mar 30, 2020

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

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

Jun 13, 2019

Two poems by Celia Dropkin

Oct 10, 2018

Milgroym editor Rachel Wischnitzer's essay on illustrated Hebrew manuscripts

Jun 06, 2018

A new translation of Malka Lee's "Baleydikt" from her 1932 collection Lider.

May 01, 2018

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

A sweatshop worker finds temporary respite from reality at a relative's wedding.

Dec 03, 2017

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

The new anthology of stories published in The Forward has more than a few gems, Eileen Pollack reviews.

Nov 30, 2016

New translations of two poems from Anna Margolin's lider.

Nov 08, 2016

An exclusive extract from Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel.

Sep 25, 2016