Texts & Translations

Part 3 of a series excerpt­ed from Rosen­feld’s ​“Cholera.”

Jun 05, 2023

Part 2 of a series excerpt­ed from Rosen­feld’s ​“Cholera.”

Jun 01, 2023

Intro­duc­ing the first install­ment of a four-part series excerpt­ed from Jon­ah Rosen­feld’s ​“Cholera.”

May 30, 2023

A trans­la­tion of Khone Shmeruk’s foun­da­tion­al arti­cle for the study of shund in Yid­dish literature.

Apr 21, 2023

Vivi Lachs trans­lates Katie Brown’s Bankrot, a fam­i­ly dra­ma set in Lon­don’s East End. 

Apr 18, 2023

A trans­la­tion of the fore­word and a chap­ter from Chaim Mal­itz’s guide for Jew­ish immi­grants, Di heym un di froy (New York City, 1918). 

Feb 01, 2023

Annabel Cohen trans­lates Abra­ham Sutzkev­er’s poem, ​“Paris.”

Dec 06, 2022

Sebas­t­ian Schul­man invites read­ers to engage with fran­coph­o­ne Québec through a trans­la­tion of Émile Nelligan’s ​“Soir d’hiv­er.”

Jul 11, 2022

New­ly-dis­cov­ered Yid­dish trans­la­tions by Cha­va Rosen­farb of two Jew­ish-Cana­di­an authors. 

Jul 05, 2022

An excerpt about hasidic yeshi­va edu­ca­tion and sec­u­lar stud­ies from Katle Kanye’s Vetinok Lelam­do Sefer.

Jun 23, 2022