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
קאָמיטעט צו זאַמלען מאַטעריאַלן װעגן ייִדישן חורבן אין פּױלן, 1939. ביולעטין נומער 3
Committee for the Collection of Materials on the Destruction of the Jews in Poland, 1939. Bulletin no. 3
A bulletin produced by the Vilna Komitet in 1939, included in Miriam Schulz’s recent book, Der Beginn des Untergangs: Die Zerstörung der jüdischen Gemeinden in Polen und das Vermächtnis des Wilnaer Komitees (“Before the bow that was drawn”: The Vilna Komitet and its documentation of the destruction of Polish Jewry), presented here in a new translation.
May 14, 2018
Texts & Translation
די ייִדישע יוניאָנס אין אַמעריקע
The Jewish Unions in America
Bernard Weinstein’s memoir recounting the history of Jewish labor unions in the United States.
Jun 29, 2017
Texts & Translation
פּאָגראָמען אין אוקראַיִנע : די צײַט פֿון דער פֿרײַװיליקער אַרמײ
The Pogroms in Ukraine: the Period of the Volunteer Army
Excepts from Nokhem Shtif’s accounts of pogroms in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War.
Sep 15, 2016