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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ממעמקים
From the Depths
A sonorous translation of a poem about the Lodz ghetto by Chava Rosenfarb.
Jun 07, 2022
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דער משפּט
The Judgment
A sinister children’s story by Joseph Opatoshu.
Apr 21, 2022
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Selected Poems by Osher Shvartsman
A selection of Osher Shvartsman’s poems translated into English by Josh Price.
Mar 23, 2022
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אַ באַנקעט פֿאַר יוסף ראָלניק
A Banquet for Joseph Rolnik
a snippet of Miriam Karpilove’s snark
Mar 16, 2022
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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).
Mar 09, 2022
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ספּינאָזאַ
Spinoza
An excerpt from Melekh Ravitsh’s memoirs on the Yiddish writer’s encounter with Spinoza’s Ethics.
Feb 17, 2022
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די שלאַנג
The Snake
An excerpt from Yitzkhok Horowitz’s Mayn Tatns Kretshme
Dec 09, 2021
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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.
Oct 26, 2021
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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.
Oct 26, 2021