Texts & Translations

Extract from Mok­doni’s mem­oir recount­ing his mem­o­ries of Rab­bi Yaakov Meir Zalkind. 

May 06, 2019

Short sto­ry from Mil­groym issue 4 

Jul 01, 2019

Short sto­ry from Mil­groym issue 6 

Jul 01, 2019

Mil­groym founder Rachel Wis­chnitzer’s por­trait of painter Max Lieber­mann (1847 – 1935) on the occa­sion of his sev­en­ty-fifth birthday. 

Jul 01, 2019

Rec­ol­lec­tions of a vis­it to a wood­en syn­a­gogue in Mogilev by the great mod­ernist artist El Lissitzky. 

Jul 01, 2019

An Extract from Yakov Leshchin­sky’s Di ekonomishe lage fun Yidn in Poyln.

Sep 25, 2019

Moyshe-Leyb Halpern’s mor­bid, post­mod­ernist bal­lad in a new, cre­ative trans­la­tion by Michael Shapiro. 

Nov 08, 2019

Shloyme Gilbert’s haunt­ing, atmos­pher­ic vignette based on his own expe­ri­ences in a sanatorium. 

Nov 13, 2019

Three poems by Leyb Kvitko from his 1919 col­lec­tion, Trit.

Mar 05, 2020

A 1921 arti­cle about Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture by Chi­nese schol­ar Mao Dun, which has served as a foun­da­tion­al piece for Yid­dish Stud­ies in China.

Mar 17, 2020