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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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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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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דער גורל פֿון אונדזערע ייִדישיסטישע שולן

The Fate of Our Yiddishist Schools (Part 2)

Part 2 of Solomon Simon’s insider’s view of the cri­sis in the Yid­dish schools fol­low­ing World War II.

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דער גורל פֿון אונדזערע ייִדישיסטישע שולן

The Fate of Our Yiddishist Schools (Part 1)

Solomon Simon’s insider’s view of the cri­sis in the Yid­dish schools fol­low­ing World War II

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ביאָגראַפֿיע פֿון "אחד הרבנים המרגישים"

Biography of “One of the Sensitive Rabbis” (Part 3)

The third part of an auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal essay of Rab­bi Aaron Shmuel Tamares, AKA One of the Sen­si­tive Rabbis” 

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ביאָגראַפֿיע פֿון "אחד הרבנים המרגישים"

Biography of “One of the Sensitive Rabbis” (Part 2)

The sec­ond part of an auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal essay of Rab­bi Aaron Shmuel Tamares, AKA One of the Sen­si­tive Rabbis” 

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ביאָגראַפֿיע פֿון "אחד הרבנים המרגישים"

Biography of “One of the Sensitive Rabbis” (Part 1)

An auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal essay of Rab­bi Aaron Shmuel Tamares, AKA One of the Sen­si­tive Rabbis”

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דער מאַרש צו די גױים

The March to the Goyim

A no-holds-barred essay from Jacob Glat­stein on pub­lish­ing, trans­la­tion, and world literature. 

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Indecent Language, Sex, and Censorship in Literature

Pre­vi­ous­ly unpub­lished trans­la­tions of two essays by Bashe­vis on cen­sor­ship of lit­er­a­ture, pre­sent­ed in a new edit­ed ver­sion by David Stromberg. 

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