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. 

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אַ באַנקעט פֿאַר יוסף ראָלניק

A Banquet for Joseph Rolnik

a snip­pet of Miri­am Karpilove’s snark

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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).

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ספּינאָזאַ

Spinoza

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

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די שלאַנג

The Snake

An excerpt from Yitzkhok Horow­itz’s Mayn Tatns Kretshme

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געלט

Money

An excerpt from the play Gelt by Mor­ris Gisnet. 

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Lwowska Juderia

Lwów’s Jewish Quarter

Deb­o­ra Vogel’s 1935 essay, Lwows­ka Jud­e­ria, gives us a valu­able snap­shot of Lwów’s Jew­ish streets with an eye to the modern.

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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. 

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An Excerpt from Mississippi

An excerpt from Leyb Malakh’s Yid­dish-lan­guage play enti­tled Mis­sis­sip­pi, which was writ­ten and per­formed for the first time in War­saw in 1935.

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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.

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