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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דרײַ לידער
Three Poems
Three poems by Leyb Kvitko from his 1919 collection, Trit.
Mar 05, 2020
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די באַלאַדע פֿון מײַן אומעט
My Tale of Woe
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern’s morbid, postmodernist ballad in a new, creative translation by Michael Shapiro.
Nov 08, 2019
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אַ שטיקעלע ברויט
A Crumb of Bread
A new translation of David Edelshtat’s proletarian poem a shtikele broyt.
Apr 30, 2019
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ייִדישע שטעטלעך פֿון פּוילן
Jewish Towns of Poland
The opening section of a Grade’s collection Shayn fun farloshene shtern (Shine of Extinguished Stars, 1950).
Mar 25, 2019
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כּתר: פֿראַגמענטן פֿון אַ ראַפּסאָדיע
Keter: Fragments of a Rhapsody
Zeitlin’s kabbalistic poem offers a stunning, yet difficult, fusion of Yiddish expressionism and futurism on the one hand, and mystical and messianic thought on the other.
Nov 29, 2018
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באַלײדיקט
Wounded
A new translation of Malka Lee’s “Baleydikt” from her 1932 collection Lider.
May 01, 2018
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נישגוט־לאַפּיטוט האָט פֿאַרלױרן דעם מוט
Goblin Nogood Has Run Out of Clout
A new translation of Jacob Glatstein's powerful and playful 1943 children's poem.
Nov 09, 2017
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צװיי לידער
Two Poems
"I'll Take Off My Shoes" and "Abraham Our Father Takes Isaac to the Sacrifice" by Itzik Manger.
Oct 02, 2017