“translation”

What if Shylock spoke Yiddish? One experimental production of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" did just that.

Jul 07, 2020

These stories take place in Israeli cities, towns, and villages, in the post-war Soviet Union, and in Poland of the interwar period. However, it is often very difficult to tell where the stories actually take place, because they express an experience of dislocation and total disorientation.

May 20, 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 roundup of translations published in 2019.

Feb 11, 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

How the poet Louis Zukofsky constructed his English-language American modernism by citing, translating, and adapting the Yiddish poetry of Yehoash.

Dec 16, 2019

Kremer reviews two new volumes dealing with Yiddish poetry, both published in Poland in 2018, which focus on the work of women poets.

Nov 17, 2019

Lawrence Rosenwald considers the uses and meanings of literal translation in the classroom.

Nov 05, 2019

Oct 06, 2019

Jun 24, 2019

May 16, 2019

Jonah Boyarin explores the process of his translation of Mordkhe Wolfshaut-Dinkes’s holocaust memoir, Checkmate: The Miracle of My Life.

May 14, 2019

The recent publication of Robert Alter’s long-awaited complete translation of the entire Hebrew Bible into English is a en enormous achievement. But Alter is not the first to tackle this monumental project; almost a century earlier, Solomon Bloomgarten—better known by his pen name, Yehoash—produced a landmark translation of the same text into Yiddish.

Apr 05, 2019

A roundup of translations published in 2018.

Jan 14, 2019

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

The Book of Esther as reimagined by Itsik Manger

Feb 28, 2018

In time for the one hundredth anniversary of the October revolution, Dovid Bergelson's novel Mides-hadin is out in a new translation by Harriet Murav and Sasha Senderovich.

Nov 07, 2017

Onstage, intimacy that's untranslatable.

Sep 26, 2017

Tova Benjamin talks with Eli Rosen, translator of Rhinoceros, about fascism, Talmudic tractates, Yiddish fluency, and going OTD.

Sep 20, 2017

In an effort to pool the collective wisdom of its readership In geveb regularly conducts polls on various topics. This time we have asked the translators to weigh in.

Jul 11, 2017

In geveb's founding editor discusses different models of Yiddish in relation to world literature through the figures of Sholem Asch and Jacob Glatstein.

Jan 23, 2017

A no-holds-barred essay from Jacob Glatstein on publishing, translation, and world literature.

Jan 23, 2017

The second in a series of teaching guides, this one for Maia Evrona's translation of Yoysef Kerler's poems "Old Fashioned" and "The Sea" (1979).

Jan 17, 2017

The study of Yiddish cinema gets updated for the twenty-first century, Margolis explores how the language is being used in film in the last decade.

Dec 18, 2016

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

Nov 30, 2016

Instructors share their thoughts on teaching Yiddish texts in translation.

Nov 28, 2016

A medievalist uses Yiddish in her scriptural scholarship.

Nov 10, 2016

The first in a series of teaching guides, this one for Eli Rosenblatt’s translation of Isaac Meir Dik’s introduction to his 1868 adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852).

Oct 25, 2016

Jerold Frakes’s recent English anthology makes early Yiddish epic accessible to a broad audience for the first time.

Oct 05, 2016

Do you teach using translated texts from Yiddish sources? Tell us about it.

Oct 04, 2016

Eve Jochnowitz discusses the rise of vegetarian cuisine among Jews, leftist politics, and how to make gefilte fish without any fish at all.

Sep 27, 2016

A new book of contemporary Yiddish poetry from the Russian writer Yisroel Nekrasov considers murder, reanimation, the geography of time, and the long work of mourning.

Sep 22, 2016

Zohar Weiman-Kelman on the intersections of Yiddish, translation, and the erotic.

Jun 01, 2016

Professor Anita Norich concludes our series of reflections on Translating Yiddish in the twenty-first century by reconsidering our relationship to ambiguity in translation.

May 12, 2016

In geveb's Managing Editor for Translations reflects on the need and possibilities for translating the archives of Yiddish culture, in addition to the greats of its literature.

May 10, 2016

Zackary Sholem Berger reflects upon the roundtable discussion at AJS last December that inspired this series, and on his own motivations as a translator from Yiddish and a writer in English and Yiddish.

May 08, 2016

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.

May 05, 2016

In the second essay in our series of reflections on translating Yiddish in the twenty-first century, Sarah Ponichtera thinks about how we can bring a sense of materiality to our translations.

May 04, 2016

Chief Editor Saul Noam Zaritt introduces our series of essays reflecting on the state of Yiddish translation.

May 01, 2016

The Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur, which is full of hard-to-find biographical and bibliographical information about Yiddish writers, is tough to access outside institutions or from the far side of a paywall. By methodically translating and posting entries from the Leksikon online, Josh Fogel is working to change that.

Apr 10, 2016

In honor of Purim, a fine calligraphed scroll of Yehoash's translation into Yiddish of the Book of Esther, completed by the poet's daughter Chava.

Mar 22, 2016

Our editorial team discusses/debates our guidelines for translating and transliterating place names from the Yiddish.

Mar 20, 2016

Austrian shepherd Hans Breuer on driving refugees across the border, and getting famous for singing Yiddish songs.

Feb 23, 2016