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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Selected Poems by Osher Shvartsman
A selection of Osher Shvartsman’s poems translated into English by Josh Price.
Mar 23, 2022
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Selections from Yidishe dikhterins
Reyzl Grace MoChridhe translates three poems by Hinde Roytblat and Dina Libkes, two Yiddish authors with Kyiv connections, selected from Ezra Korman’s Yidishe dikhterins anthology (1928).
Mar 09, 2022
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ספּינאָזאַ
Spinoza
An excerpt from Melekh Ravitsh’s memoirs on the Yiddish writer’s encounter with Spinoza’s Ethics.
Feb 17, 2022
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Erasing the Written, Rewriting the Erased: A Fragmented and Imperfect Tribute to Vogel
Zackary Sholem Berger renders two poems by Vogel anew via the poetic method of translation-erasure, revealing through distortion the contours that lead from language to language across the decades.
Oct 26, 2021
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Selections from Neger-Dikhtung in Amerike (Negro-Poetry in America)
Eli Rosenblatt introduces three poems by African American women poets of the Harlem Renaissance, translated into Yiddish by Robert Magidoff for the 1936 anthology Neger-Dikhtung in America (Negro-Poetry in America), published in Moscow.
Jun 25, 2021
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אַלף, בית,...
Alef, Beys . . .
An alefbetical voyage into the cosmos, in Jonah Lubin’s alliterative translation
Apr 12, 2021
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אורי צבֿי פֿאַרן צלם
Uri Zvi Before the Cross
A new translation of Uri Zvi Grinberg’s provocative experimental typographic poem, first published in his literary journal Albatros.
Jul 12, 2020
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צוויי לידער
Two Poems
Two poems by Miryam Ulinover, translated by Mindy Liberman.
Jun 01, 2020
