Texts & Translations
New translations into English of Yiddish language materials including poetry, stories, essays, and archival materials of all kinds. Original Yiddish texts are presented in a standardized orthography and are fully searchable.
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די גרינע עפּעלעך פֿון גן־עדן
Green Apples from the Garden of Eden
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
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משיח אין אַמעריקע
Messiah in America
An exclusive extract from Moyshe Nadir’s 1932 satire, Messiah in America.
Jul 04, 2018
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חיים גראַװיצער (די געשיכטע פֿון דעם געפֿאַלענעם): פֿון דער חבדישער װעלט
Chaim Gravitzer (The Tale of the Downfallen One): From the World of Chabad
An extract from Fishl Schneersohn’s novel Chaim Gravitzer: The Tale of the Downfallen One From the World of Chabad.
Jul 03, 2018
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הונגער: אַ מאָנאָלאָג פֿון אַ הונט
Hunger: Monologue of a Dog
Shloyme Gilbert’s tale of hardship and alienation, narrated by a dog.
Jun 18, 2018
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דער טױער־מאָטיװ אין דער בוך־קונסט
The Motif of the Porch
Milgroym editor Rachel Wischnitzer’s essay on illustrated Hebrew manuscripts
Jun 06, 2018
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ברוך דיין אמת
Blessed is the True Judge
A short story from Leon Kobrin’s 1903 collection Geto dramen.
May 30, 2018
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קאָמיטעט צו זאַמלען מאַטעריאַלן װעגן ייִדישן חורבן אין פּױלן, 1939. ביולעטין נומער 3
Committee for the Collection of Materials on the Destruction of the Jews in Poland, 1939. Bulletin no. 3
A bulletin produced by the Vilna Komitet in 1939, included in Miriam Schulz’s recent book, Der Beginn des Untergangs: Die Zerstörung der jüdischen Gemeinden in Polen und das Vermächtnis des Wilnaer Komitees (“Before the bow that was drawn”: The Vilna Komitet and its documentation of the destruction of Polish Jewry), presented here in a new translation.
May 14, 2018
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באַלײדיקט
Wounded
A new translation of Malka Lee’s “Baleydikt” from her 1932 collection Lider.
May 01, 2018
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מכאן ואילך : פתח־דבר
Mikan Ve’eylakh (From this Point Onward): Foreword
In anticipation of its third issue, here is the foreword to issue one of Mikan Ve’eylakh: Journal for Diasporic Hebrew.
Apr 30, 2018