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 שמוגלערין
The Smuggler Girl
A gripping story by Rosa Palatnik about a girl smuggling goods over the Galician border.
May 16, 2025
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איך װאָלט געאװאָלט אַמאָל דײַן מאַמען זען
I Would Have Liked to See Your Mother Once
Reflections on motherhood in its absence - in time for Mother’s Day.
May 09, 2025
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אַ פּורים־מלכּה
A Purim Queen
A short story by Rosa Palatnik about two Purim pageants set in Poland and Brazil.
Mar 13, 2025
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טעג אין טורמע
Prison Time
A story by union leader Ben Gold (1898-1985) based on his experience of forty days in a Delaware prison.
Feb 26, 2025
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קערנדלעך װײץ
Grains of Wheat
A new, dynamic translation of Abraham Sutzkever’s poem about the burial and regeneration of “the Jewish word.”
Jan 06, 2025
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די מאַלינע
The Hideaway
An excerpt from Avrom Nokhem Stencl’s memoirs of urban wandering in Weimar Berlin.
Nov 10, 2024
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די אורחים אין דוראַטשישאָק
The Guests in Duratshishok
Ayzik Meir Dik’s satirical story about the weekend two Jewish professionals (a wonderworker and a cantor) came to stay in the town of Duratshishok.
Nov 04, 2024
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די זילבערנע לײַכטערס
The Silver Candlesticks
Sonia Gollance translates Arciszewska’s poem about Yom Kippur candles and postwar memory.
Oct 08, 2024
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דער לײב־באַצװינגער אין דער ייִדישער קונסט
The Lion Tamer in Jewish Art
Sasha Hoffman translates Rachel Wishnitzer Bernstein’s essay on the theme of the lion tamer in Jewish art.
Jun 25, 2024
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ס’געוויין פֿון הונגעריקע קינדער
The Cry of Hungry Children
Tal Hever-Chybowski translates Yoysef Papyernikov’s “The Cry of Hungry Children” for In geveb’s ongoing series on Yiddish literary responses to the war.
Jun 10, 2024