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.

Texts & Translation

The Yiddish Life of Chaim Soutine (1893-1943): New Materials

A selection of short texts shedding light on the biography of artist Chaim Soutine, translated and with an introductory essay by Ofer Dynes.

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וועגן דער מאָהליווער שול: זכרונות

On the Mogilev Shul: Recollections

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

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מאַקס ליבערמאַן

Max Liebermann

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

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דער טױער־מאָטיװ אין דער בוך־קונסט

The Motif of the Porch

Milgroym editor Rachel Wischnitzer’s essay on illustrated Hebrew manuscripts

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ייִדישע קינסטלער אין דער הײַנטיקער רוסישער קונסט

Jewish Artists in Contemporary Russian Art

Henryk Berlewi's 1922 essay on Jewish art in Russia, published in Milgroym.

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