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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מײַן פֿאָטער
My Father
Aaron Zeitlin’s poem about his father, Hillel Zeitlin
Jan 11, 2017
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לידער פֿון טאָגבוך
Three poems from Poems from my Diary
Three poems from Abraham Sutzkever’s collection Poems from My Diary.
Dec 05, 2016
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"איר שמייכל", "אַ מענטש"
"Her Smile" and "A Man"
New translations of two poems from Anna Margolin’s lider.
Nov 08, 2016
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Evigingo
Leyzer Volf’s “Yiddish Hiawatha”, written over three days and published in a romanized script.
Oct 12, 2016
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דער חובֿ
The Debt
An exclusive extract from Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel.
Sep 25, 2016
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פּאָגראָמען אין אוקראַיִנע : די צײַט פֿון דער פֿרײַװיליקער אַרמײ
The Pogroms in Ukraine: the Period of the Volunteer Army
Excepts from Nokhem Shtif’s accounts of pogroms in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War.
Sep 15, 2016
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לינטשערײַ
A Lynching
The gritty, and controversial 1920s account of a lynching by Joseph Opatoshu.
Jun 21, 2016
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סאַקאָ און וואַנזעטיס מאָנטיק
Sacco and Vanzetti’s Monday
A poem about Sacco and Vanzetti, originally published the day before their execution.
May 24, 2016
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דער פֿערציקיעריקער מאַן
The Forty-Year-Old Man
New translations of four sections from Markish’s book-length modernist poem.
May 18, 2016
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בינטשע די צדקתטע אָדער די אײַנגעפֿאַלענע באָד
Bintshe the Tsadeykeste or The Demolished Bathhouse
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