“Women in Translation”
Interview
Reviving Yiddish Theater in London and Recovering Female Playwrights: An Interview with Sonia Gollance
Tamara Gleason Freidberg and Sonia Gollance
Tamara Gleason Friedberg sat down with Sonia Gollance in Summer 2024 to discuss Yiddish theater in London, her translation of Tea Arciszewska's Miryeml, and what comes next.
Nov 26, 2024
Review
Review of So Many Warm Words by Rosa Nevadovska, trans. by Merle L. Bachman
Pearl Abraham
Merle L. Bachman’s new translation of a selection of Nevadovska’s poems, mostly from Lider Mayne, published by Ben Yehuda Press, is an event to celebrate.
Oct 09, 2024
Texts & Translation
די זילבערנע לײַכטערס
The Silver Candlesticks
Tea Arciszewska
Translation by Sonia Gollance
Sonia Gollance translates Arciszewska's poem about Yom Kippur candles and postwar memory.
Oct 08, 2024
Review
Review of Three Yiddish Plays by Women: Female Jewish Perspectives, 1880-1920, Alyssa Quint (anthology editor)
Corina L. Petrescu
These three wriers with lives unfolding in three different localities—Tsarist Russia, Poland, and the US—wrote plays that grapple with issues —such as the tragic fate of the agune (“chained wife”), motherhood, self-realization, sex work, financial independence, and reproductive autonomy— that unfortunately are still urgent a century later.
Jul 09, 2024
Blog
2023, the “Year of Chava Rosenfarb” in Lodz
Mordecai Walfish
A future beyond anything Rosenfarb dared to imagine is now present, and it exists alongside the painful past.
May 07, 2024
Review
Review of Montage: Works by Debora Vogel, trans. Lyubas
Golda van der Meer
This small hardcover book is a perfect gem for those who want to introduce themselves to Vogel’s poetry.
Apr 17, 2024
Review
Review of Shira Gorshman's Meant to Be, translated by Faith Jones
Sean Sidky
This is the first book-length collection of Gorshman’s work to be translated into English, with only a handful of stories elsewhere.
Feb 19, 2024
Review
Review of Miriam Karpilove's A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories, translated by Jessica Kirzane
Sarah Imhoff
The women in A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories are complex, multifaceted characters, and they do not uniformly fixate on love.
Feb 12, 2024
Texts & Translation
צו מײַן ברודער אַבֿרהם רײזען
To My Brother Avrom Reisen
Sarah Reisen
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
A translation of Sarah Reisen's poem to her brother, Avrom.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
מײדלעך, פֿרױען, װײַבער און...נבואה
Girls, Women, Ladies and... Prophecy
Kadya Molodovsky
Translation by Anita Norich, Faith Jones and David Mazower
A translation of Kadya Molodowsky's response to Melech Ravitsh's article about women writers.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
אַ פּאָר שעה אין פֿרױען־װעלט
A Few Hours in Women’s World
Chana Blankshteyn
Translation by Anita Norich, Faith Jones and David Mazower
A translation of Chana Blankshteyn's repotage on Sore Reyzn's speech in the Women's Union in March 1927.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
„מײַן טאַטע פֿאַרברענט מײַנע לידער“ און „דער שרײַבער־באַל...“
"My Father Burns My Poems" and "The Writer's Ball"
Malka Lee
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
Translations of excerpts from Malka Lee's memoir, Durkh kindershe oygn.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
אַן אָפֿענער בריװ צו יענטע סערדאַצקי
An Open Letter to Yente Serdatsky
Chaim Gutman
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
A translation of Der lebediker's satirical letter to Yente Serdatsky.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
פֿראַדל שטאָק
Fradl Shtok
Rokhl Auerbach
Translation by Anita Norich, David Mazower and Faith Jones
A translation of Rokhl Auerbach's review of Fradl Shtok's short story collection.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
אַ קוש
A Kiss
Celia Dropkin
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
A translation of Celia Dropkin's "A kush."
Nov 19, 2023
Review
Review of In the Land of the Postscript by Chava Rosenfarb, trans. Morgentaler
Shelley Pomerance
Nov 08, 2023
Pedagogy
Compendium to Found Treasures
Julie Sharff
The aim of this compendium is to make Yiddish originals for the stories in Found Treasures easily available and to preserve some of the materiality of the editor’s task of collecting these short stories.
Jun 19, 2023
Review
Review of Fear and Other Stories by Chana Blankshteyn, translated by Anita Norich
Brigitte McFarland
Apr 11, 2023
Interview
Layering Text and Perspective: An Interview with Singer Songwriter Katherine Bulthuis
Grace Rosenberg
"Di Froyen," the debut EP by Katherine Bulthius, performing under the moniker Olke, sets to music the first three poems in Kadya Molodowsky’s cycle of the same name.
Apr 05, 2023
Pedagogy
“Di froyen”: Two Students’ Experiences
Naomi Piper-Pell and Olive Benito-Myles
In this article Olive Benito-Myles and Naomi Piper-Pell reflect on their experience attending the conference "Di froyen" at the Yiddish Book Center.
Feb 09, 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
Texts & Translation
Chava Rosenfarb’s Translations into Yiddish of Two English-Language Jewish-Canadian Writers
Miriam Waddington and Adele Wiseman
Translation by Chava Rosenfarb
Edited by Goldie Morgentaler and Ruth Panofsky
Newly-discovered Yiddish translations by Chava Rosenfarb of two Jewish-Canadian authors.
Jul 05, 2022
Blog
Feminism, Creativity and Translation: Chava Rosenfarb Translates Jewish-Canadian Women Writers into Yiddish
Goldie Morgentaler
Goldie Morgentaler reflects on why her mother, the novelist Chava Rosenfarb, might have chosen to translate the work of two other Jewish Canadian women writers — her friends Miriam Waddington and Adele Wiseman, who both wrote in English — into Yiddish.
Jul 05, 2022
Review
“Love is Death”: Judith: A Tale of Love and Woe
Sean Sidky
Judith is a novel about the mundanities of life and love that, as perhaps painful and unhealthy as they later turn out to be, persist even as the world around us erupts into violence, and that we carry with us halfway across the world and half a lifetime away.
May 12, 2022
Texts & Translation
Selections from Yidishe dikhterins
Dina Libkes and Hinde Roytblat
Translation by Reyzl Grace MoChridhe
Reyzl Grace MoChridhe translates three poems by Hinde Roytblat and Dina Libkes, two Yiddish authors with Kyiv connections, selected from Ezra Korman's Yidishe dikhterins anthology (1928).
Mar 09, 2022
Review
Review of Women Writing Jewish Modernity by Allison Schachter
Jessica Kirzane
Schachter calls us to think beyond the androcentric, to imagine and create an understanding of modern Jewish literature that places women at its center.
Feb 02, 2022
Article
Walking with Vogel: New Perspectives on Debora Vogel
Anna Elena Torres, Kathryn Hellerstein and Anastasiya Lyubas
This special issue invites you to walk with Debora Vogel as she maps the spaces of Jewish life through avant-garde forms. We bring together new perspectives on Vogel through poetry, visual art, translation, and scholarship, all in an attempt to follow the many lines of creative and critical inquiry that emerge from Vogel’s work.
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Oct 26, 2021
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
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 Bernstein
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