Texts & Translations

An excerpt from Melekh Rav­it­sh’s mem­oirs on the Yid­dish writer’s encounter with Spin­oza­’s Ethics.

Feb 17, 2022

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

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

An alef­bet­i­cal voy­age into the cos­mos, in Jon­ah Lubin’s allit­er­a­tive translation

Apr 12, 2021

Two poems by Yoy­sef Kerler

Nov 01, 2020

A new trans­la­tion of Uri Zvi Grin­berg’s provoca­tive exper­i­men­tal typo­graph­ic poem, first pub­lished in his lit­er­ary jour­nal Alba­tros.

Jul 12, 2020

Two poems by Miryam Uli­nover, trans­lat­ed by Mindy Liberman.

Jun 01, 2020

Three poems by Sarah Reisen. 

May 12, 2020

Three poems by Leyb Kvitko from his 1919 col­lec­tion, Trit.

Mar 05, 2020

Moyshe-Leyb Halpern’s mor­bid, post­mod­ernist bal­lad in a new, cre­ative trans­la­tion by Michael Shapiro. 

Nov 08, 2019