Texts & Translations

The sec­ond part of an auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal essay of Rab­bi Aaron Shmuel Tamares, AKA ​“One of the Sen­si­tive Rabbis” 

May 01, 2017

An auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal essay of Rab­bi Aaron Shmuel Tamares, AKA ​“One of the Sen­si­tive Rabbis”

Apr 24, 2017

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. 

Mar 30, 2017

Break­ing News: Stop Translating! 

Mar 09, 2017

A sum­ma­ry of the first pirem-shpil or ​“Purim play” writ­ten, pro­duced and per­formed by Bobover Hasidim in the Unit­ed States after the Sec­ond World War. 

Feb 14, 2017

Jacob Glat­stein rem­i­nisces about the spa town of Nałęczów and about Bel­la Man­dels­berg, a young his­to­ri­an he met there. 

Jan 23, 2017

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

Jan 23, 2017

Aaron Zeitlin’s poem about his father, Hil­lel Zeitlin 

Jan 11, 2017

Three poems from Abra­ham Sutzkever’s col­lec­tion Poems from My Diary.

Dec 05, 2016

New trans­la­tions of two poems from Anna Mar­golin’s lid­er.

Nov 08, 2016