Texts & Translations

Leyz­er Volf’s ​“Yid­dish Hiawatha”, writ­ten over three days and pub­lished in a roman­ized script.

Oct 12, 2016

An exclu­sive extract from Oedi­pus in Brook­lyn and Oth­er Sto­ries by Blume Lempel. 

Sep 25, 2016

Excepts from Nokhem Shtif’s accounts of pogroms in Ukraine dur­ing the Russ­ian Civ­il War. 

Sep 15, 2016

The grit­ty, and con­tro­ver­sial 1920s account of a lynch­ing by Joseph Opatoshu.

Jun 21, 2016

A poem about Sac­co and Vanzetti, orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished the day before their execution. 

May 24, 2016

New trans­la­tions of four sec­tions from Mark­ish’s book-length mod­ernist poem. 

May 18, 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

Turns out Sholem Ale­ichem was also a clas­sic writer of fan mail. 

Apr 03, 2016

Trans­la­tions of two let­ters by Zeitlin about Yavneh, one in Yid­dish from 1925 and one in Ara­ma­ic from 1928. 

Mar 08, 2016

A new­ly dis­cov­ered, undat­ed man­u­script signed by Hil­lel Zeitlin, in which he describes suc­cinct­ly and clear­ly the nature of Yavneh and its intend­ed function.

Mar 08, 2016