“satire”

Review

Review of Diego Rotman's The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home

Debra Caplan

In this study of Shimen Dzigan and Yisroel Schumacher, Diego Rotman presents a study of the subversive power of Yiddish comedy in the twentieth century.

Texts & Translation

משיח אין אַמעריקע

Messiah in America

Moyshe Nadir

Translation by Michael Shapiro

An exclusive extract from Moyshe Nadir's 1932 satire, Messiah in America.

Texts & Translation

נישגוט־לאַפּיטוט האָט פֿאַרלױרן דעם מוט

Goblin Nogood Has Run Out of Clout

Jacob Glatstein

Translation by Jeffrey Shandler

A new translation of Jacob Glatstein's powerful and playful 1943 children's poem.

Texts & Translation

דער דיבוק אין קריזיס־געשטאַלט

The Dybbuk In The Form Of A Crisis

Yosl Cutler

Translation by Michael Shapiro

No, not Sh. An-Ski's classic Dybbuk, but Yosl Cutler's parody version, with sharp-tongued satire, a host of illustrious cameos, and puppets. 

Texts & Translation

בינטשע די צדקתטע אָדער די אײַנגעפֿאַלענע באָד

Bintshe the Tsadeykeste or The Demolished Bathhouse

Jacob Morgenstern

Translation by Myra Mniewski

A new translation of a nineteenth century chapbook detailing the comic adventures of a woman named Bintshe and her mission to save a dilapidated bathhouse.