“translation”
Texts & Translation
Selections from Neger-Dikhtung in Amerike (Negro-Poetry in America)
Anita Scott Coleman , Angelina Weld Grimke and Clarissa Scott Delaney
Translation by Robert Magidoff
Edited by Eli Rosenblatt
Eli Rosenblatt introduces three poems by African American women poets of the Harlem Renaissance, translated into Yiddish by Robert Magidoff for the 1936 anthology Neger-Dikhtung in America (Negro-Poetry in America), published in Moscow.
Jun 25, 2021
Review
Review of Sutzkever Essential Prose, translated by Zackary Sholem Berger
Raphael Halff
Halff offers a specific and detailed critique of the translation, while also acknowledging that in this book, filled with Sutzkever’s metaphors, imagery, and motifs, "wonders await."
Jun 23, 2021
Texts & Translation
Tsilke the Wild: Part 18
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh’s 1922 novel.
Part 18 of 18 instalments.
May 14, 2021
Texts & Translation
Tsilke the Wild: Part 17
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh’s 1922 novel.
Part 17 of 18 instalments.
May 14, 2021
Texts & Translation
Tsilke the Wild: Part 16
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh’s 1922 novel.
Part 16 of 18 instalments.
May 14, 2021
Texts & Translation
Tsilke the Wild: Part 15
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh’s 1922 novel.
Part 15 of 18 instalments.
May 13, 2021
Texts & Translation
Tsilke the Wild: Part 14
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh’s 1922 novel.
Part 14 of 18 instalments.
May 01, 2021
Texts & Translation
Tsilke the Wild: Part 13
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh’s 1922 novel.
Part 13 of 18 instalments.
Apr 22, 2021
Texts & Translation
Tsilke the Wild: Part 12
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh’s 1922 novel.
Part 12 of 18 instalments.
Apr 07, 2021
Texts & Translation
Tsilke the Wild: Part 11
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh’s 1922 novel.
Part 11 of 18 instalments.
Apr 06, 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
Texts & Translation
Tsilke the Wild: Part 10
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh’s 1922 novel.
Part 10 of 18 instalments.
Mar 31, 2021
Pedagogy
The Yudika Variations: Translating b'Chevrusa
Faith Jones and Annie Sommer Kaufman
The authors describe an exercise in which they translate and re-translate the same text into different formats.
Mar 30, 2021
Texts & Translation
Tsilke the Wild: Part 9
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh’s 1922 novel.
Part 9 of 18 instalments.
Mar 24, 2021
Texts & Translation
Tsilke the Wild: Part 8
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh’s 1922 novel.
Part 8 of 18 instalments.
Mar 18, 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
Tsilke the Wild: Part 7
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh’s 1922 novel.
Part 7 of 18 instalments.
Feb 17, 2021
Texts & Translation
די ווילדע צילקע: טייל 6
Tsilke the Wild: part 6
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh's 1922 novel.
Part 6 of 18 instalments.
Feb 10, 2021
Texts & Translation
די ווילדע צילקע: טייל 5
Tsilke the Wild: part 5
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh's 1922 novel.
Part 5 of 18 instalments.
Feb 10, 2021
Texts & Translation
די ווילדע צילקע: טייל 4
Tsilke the Wild: part 4
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh's 1922 novel.
Part 4 of 18 instalments.
Feb 04, 2021
Texts & Translation
די ווילדע צילקע: טייל 3
Tsilke the Wild: part 3
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh's 1922 novel.
Part 3 of 18 instalments.
Feb 04, 2021
Texts & Translation
די ווילדע צילקע: טייל 2
Tsilke the Wild: part 2
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh's 1922 novel.
Part 2 of 18 instalments.
Jan 25, 2021
Texts & Translation
די ווילדע צילקע: טייל 1
Tsilke the Wild: part 1
Zusman Segalovitsh
Translation by Daniel Kennedy
A serialized translation of Zusman Segalovitsh's 1922 novel.
Part 1 of 18 instalments.
Jan 25, 2021
Blog
The Latest Yiddish Translations, 2020
Daniel Kennedy
A roundup of translations published in 2020.
Jan 24, 2021
Texts & Translation
Tsilke the Wild
Daniel Kennedy
Tsilke the Wild by Zusman Segalovitch: Introduction and resources
Jan 22, 2021
Blog
The Golden Chain: A Children's Story
Jessica Kirzane
An original children's story celebrating Yiddish-English translation.
Nov 22, 2020
Article
Shylock’s Jewish Way of Speaking
Nahma Sandrow
What if Shylock spoke Yiddish? One experimental production of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" did just that.
Jul 07, 2020
Review
Review of Seeds in the Desert by Mendel Mann, translated and with an introduction by Heather Valencia
Shachar Pinsker
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
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
Blog
The Latest Yiddish Translations, 2019
Daniel Kennedy
A roundup of translations published in 2019.
Feb 11, 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
Article
Louis Zukofsky: Building a Poetics of Translation
Sarah Ponichtera
How the poet Louis Zukofsky constructed his English-language American modernism by citing, translating, and adapting the Yiddish poetry of Yehoash.
Dec 16, 2019
Review
Women’s Voices from Yiddish to Polish
Aleksandra Kremer
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
Pedagogy
On the Pedagogic Uses of Literal Translation
Lawrence Rosenwald
Lawrence Rosenwald considers the uses and meanings of literal translation in the classroom.
Nov 05, 2019
Review
Review of A Jewish Refugee in New York: Rivke Zilberg’s Journal by Kadya Molodovsky, Translated by Anita Norich
Rachel Rubinstein
Oct 06, 2019
Review
Review of On The Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash translated by Ellen Cassedy
Allison Schachter
Jun 24, 2019
Blog
Translating the Holocaust
Jonah S. Boyarin
Jonah Boyarin explores the process of his translation of Mordkhe Wolfshaut-Dinkes’s holocaust memoir, Checkmate: The Miracle of My Life.
May 14, 2019
Blog
A Tale of Two Translators: Yehoash and Alter Take on the Tanakh
Jeffrey Shandler
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
Blog
The Latest Yiddish Translations, 2018
Maia Evrona, Jessica Kirzane and Daniel Kennedy
A roundup of translations published in 2018.
Jan 14, 2019
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
פֿון מגילה לידער
Excerpts from Itsik Manger's Megile Lider (Megillah Poems)
Itzik Manger
Translation by Hershl Hartman
The Book of Esther as reimagined by Itsik Manger
Feb 28, 2018
Review
Judgment
Boris Dralyuk
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
Blog
Queering Broadway: Indecent and Lesbian Yiddish Love
C. Tova Markenson
Onstage, intimacy that's untranslatable.
Sep 26, 2017
Interview
Remedy Before the Sickness: Eli Rosen on Translating Rhinoceros into Yiddish
Tova Benjamin
Tova Benjamin talks with Eli Rosen, translator of Rhinoceros, about fascism, Talmudic tractates, Yiddish fluency, and going OTD.
Sep 20, 2017
Texts & Translation
Taytsh-Rope Walking: The Occupational Hazards of Yiddish Translation
Daniel Kennedy
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
Blog
Yiddish, Translation, and a World Literature To-Come
Saul Noam Zaritt
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
Texts & Translation
דער מאַרש צו די גױים
The March to the Goyim
Jacob Glatstein
Translation by Saul Noam Zaritt
A no-holds-barred essay from Jacob Glatstein on publishing, translation, and world literature.
Jan 23, 2017
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Yoysef Kerler’s “Old Fashioned” and “The Sea” (trans. Evrona)
Jessica Kirzane
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
Article
New Yiddish Film and the Transvernacular
Rebecca Margolis
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
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
Pedagogy
לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: Teaching Texts in Translation
Jessica Kirzane
Instructors share their thoughts on teaching Yiddish texts in translation.
Nov 28, 2016
Interview
“Conversion through language”: Mo Pareles on Yiddish, Old English, and the Temporal Other
Sarah Ellen Zarrow
A medievalist uses Yiddish in her scriptural scholarship.
Nov 10, 2016
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Dik's "Slavery or Serfdom" (trans. Rosenblatt)
Jessica Kirzane
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
Review
Jerold C. Frakes: Early Yiddish Epic
Rachel Wamsley
Jerold Frakes’s recent English anthology makes early Yiddish epic accessible to a broad audience for the first time.
Oct 05, 2016
Pedagogy
Invitation to Participate: How Do You Teach With Translated Texts from Yiddish?
The Editors
Do you teach using translated texts from Yiddish sources? Tell us about it.
Oct 04, 2016
Interview
Radical, Rational Eating: Eve Jochnowitz on Eastern European Vegetarians, Jewish Politics, and Translating The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook
Sarah Ellen Zarrow
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
Blog
The Lonely Hero Needs Reanimating: Poems by Yisroel Nekrasov | רעאַנימאַטאָרן קענען אַלץ: לידער פֿון ישׂראל נעקראַסאָוו
Zackary Sholem Berger
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
Interview
Embracing the Multiple: A Conversation with Zohar Weiman-Kelman
Temim Fruchter
Zohar Weiman-Kelman on the intersections of Yiddish, translation, and the erotic.
Jun 01, 2016
Blog
Embracing Ambiguity: Reflections on Translating Yiddish
Anita Norich
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
Blog
Translating the Iceberg: Reflections on the Possibilities of In geveb’s Texts & Translations Section
Madeleine Cohen
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
Blog
Translation from Yiddish: Whys and Wherefores
Zackary Sholem Berger
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
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.
May 05, 2016
Blog
The Problem of Materiality in Yiddish Translation
Sarah Ponichtera
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
Blog
Precarious Chains: Reflections on Translating Yiddish
Saul Noam Zaritt
Chief Editor Saul Noam Zaritt introduces our series of essays reflecting on the state of Yiddish translation.
May 01, 2016
Interview
"Eight Volumes in Dour Maroon": Josh Fogel on Translating the Leksikon
Madeleine Cohen and Diana Clarke
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
Blog
Yehoash’s Scroll: A Calligraphed Megiles Ester
Shifra Epstein
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
Blog
Vilne? Vilna? Wilno? Vilnius?: Place Names in Yiddish
Ben Sadock, Samuel Spinner and Sarah Ellen Zarrow
Our editorial team discusses/debates our guidelines for translating and transliterating place names from the Yiddish.
Mar 20, 2016
Interview
"We Should Not Create Enemies": Europe's Refugee Crisis and Yiddish Song
Sonia Gollance
Austrian shepherd Hans Breuer on driving refugees across the border, and getting famous for singing Yiddish songs.
Feb 23, 2016