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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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
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מײַן פֿאָטער
My Father
Aaron Zeitlin’s poem about his father, Hillel Zeitlin
Jan 11, 2017
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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.
Dec 05, 2016
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"איר שמייכל", "אַ מענטש"
"Her Smile" and "A Man"
New translations of two poems from Anna Margolin’s lider.
Nov 08, 2016
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Evigingo
Leyzer Volf’s “Yiddish Hiawatha”, written over three days and published in a romanized script.
Oct 12, 2016
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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.
May 24, 2016
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דער פֿערציקיעריקער מאַן
The Forty-Year-Old Man
New translations of four sections from Markish’s book-length modernist poem.
May 18, 2016
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קיביאַ
Qibya
A new translation of Jacob Glatstein’s 1956 poem about the “Qibya affair.”
Feb 21, 2016
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“אַלטמאָדיש“ און „דער ים„
"Old-Fashioned" and "The Sea"
Translations of two poems by Yoysef Kerler
Feb 15, 2016
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אָאַזיס
Poems from Oasis
New translations of six poems from Sutzkever’s 1960 collection Oasis.
Dec 20, 2015