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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מיטן פּנים צו דער צוקונפֿט
Facing the Future: Reflecting on Fifty Years of Zionism and the Bund
Leivick Hodes writes, in Madeleine Cohen’s translation, of the trajectory of the Bund and other political movements in 1947, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Bund and Zionism.
Jun 11, 2026
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דער לץ
The Clown
Yonia Fain’s story follows an avant-garde theater troupe—and their clown—as the director casts the role of dictator in their next production.
Feb 27, 2026
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הירשקע גליק
Hirshke Glik
An excerpt from Kaczerginski’s memoir on the origins of the Partisan Hymn.
Jan 26, 2024
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שאַך־מאַט
Checkmate
An extract from Mordkhe Wolfshaut-Dinkes’s holocaust memoir.
Mar 04, 2019
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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
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נישגוט־לאַפּיטוט האָט פֿאַרלױרן דעם מוט
Goblin Nogood Has Run Out of Clout
A new translation of Jacob Glatstein's powerful and playful 1943 children's poem.
Nov 09, 2017
