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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A Life in Peril (Scenes from the South)

A short vignette, tak­en from a col­lec­tion of children’s lit­er­a­ture pub­lished in 1933, explor­ing anti-Black violence.

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גאָרנישט

“Gurnisht” Nothing

Zvee Scool­er’s mas­ter­piece on noth­ing at all.

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Tsilke the Wild: Part 18

A seri­al­ized trans­la­tion of Zus­man Segalovit­sh’s 1922 nov­el.
Part 18 of 18 instalments.

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Tsilke the Wild: Part 17

A seri­al­ized trans­la­tion of Zus­man Segalovit­sh’s 1922 nov­el.
Part 17 of 18 instalments.

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Tsilke the Wild: Part 16

A seri­al­ized trans­la­tion of Zus­man Segalovit­sh’s 1922 nov­el.
Part 16 of 18 instalments.

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Tsilke the Wild: Part 15

A seri­al­ized trans­la­tion of Zus­man Segalovit­sh’s 1922 nov­el.
Part 15 of 18 instalments.

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אַ וואָרט פֿון דער רעדאַקציע

“A Word from the Editors”

Intro to the 1941 anthol­o­gy Der Kon­ti­nent.

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Tsilke the Wild: Part 14

A seri­al­ized trans­la­tion of Zus­man Segalovit­sh’s 1922 nov­el.
Part 14 of 18 instalments.

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Tsilke the Wild: Part 13

A seri­al­ized trans­la­tion of Zus­man Segalovit­sh’s 1922 nov­el.
Part 13 of 18 instalments.

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אַלף, בית,...

Alef, Beys . . .

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

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