Texts & Translations

The open­ing sec­tion of a Grade’s col­lec­tion Shayn fun far­loshene shtern (Shine of Extin­guished Stars, 1950).

Mar 25, 2019

A humoris­tic mono­logue from Der Tunkel­er about Yiddishism.

Mar 20, 2019

An extract from Mord­khe Wolf­shaut-Dinkes’s holo­caust memoir.

Mar 04, 2019

Feb 27, 2019

1931 news­pa­per arti­cle by the Pol­ish Jew­ish his­to­ri­an Meir Bała­ban con­cern­ing the curi­ous Hasidic fig­ure known as Berish Bal-tshuve

Feb 27, 2019

Hil­lel Zeitlin’s 1924 arti­cle on the lan­guage ques­tion pre­sent­ing a nov­el per­spec­tive: the cul­ti­va­tion of both Hebrew and Yid­dish is nec­es­sary to ensure the con­tin­ued flour­ish­ing of the Jew­ish people. 

Jan 20, 2019

Zeitlin’s kab­bal­is­tic poem offers a stun­ning, yet dif­fi­cult, fusion of Yid­dish expres­sion­ism and futur­ism on the one hand, and mys­ti­cal and mes­sian­ic thought on the other. 

Nov 29, 2018

If you thought Shloyme Gilbert’s ​“Mono­logue of a Dog” was strange, wait until you read Get­sl Selikovit­sh’s toma­to monologue. 

Nov 21, 2018

From Boris San­dler’s 1997 col­lec­tion Toy­ern (Gate­ways): a sto­ry in which an immi­grant’s rem­i­nis­cences are so vivid they all but blur the bor­der between dreams and time travel.

Oct 24, 2018

Two poems by Celia Dropkin 

Oct 10, 2018