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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באַלײדיקט

Wounded

A new trans­la­tion of Mal­ka Lee’s Baley­dikt” from her 1932 col­lec­tion Lid­er.

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רויך

Smoke

A standalone poem by Jacob Glatstein

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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.

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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.

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מײַן פֿאָטער

My Father

Aaron Zeitlin’s poem about his father, Hil­lel Zeitlin 

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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.

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"איר שמייכל", "אַ מענטש"

"Her Smile" and "A Man"

New trans­la­tions of two poems from Anna Mar­golin’s lid­er.

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Evigingo

Leyz­er Volf’s Yid­dish Hiawatha”, writ­ten over three days and pub­lished in a roman­ized script.

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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. 

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דער פֿערציקיעריקער מאַן

The Forty-Year-Old Man

New trans­la­tions of four sec­tions from Mark­ish’s book-length mod­ernist poem. 

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