“labor”

Texts & Translation

טעג אין טורמע

Prison Time

Ben Gold

Translation by Annie Sommer Kaufman

A story by union leader Ben Gold (1898-1985) based on his experience of forty days in a Delaware prison. 

Texts & Translation

געלט

Money

Morris Gisnet

Translation by Max H. Weinreich

An excerpt from the play Gelt by Morris Gisnet. 

Blog

Making Sense of Squiggles: Teaching and Learning Yiddish Stenography

Elena Hoffenberg

The invisible labor, and liberation, of a shorthand for Yiddish.