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
דער פֿערציקיעריקער מאַן
The Forty-Year-Old Man
New translations of four sections from Markish’s book-length modernist poem.
May 18, 2016
Texts & Translation
Lwowska Juderia
Lwów’s Jewish Quarter
Debora Vogel’s 1935 essay, Lwowska Juderia, gives us a valuable snapshot of Lwów’s Jewish streets with an eye to the modern.
Oct 26, 2021
Texts & Translation
Erasing the Written, Rewriting the Erased: A Fragmented and Imperfect Tribute to Vogel
Zackary Sholem Berger renders two poems by Vogel anew via the poetic method of translation-erasure, revealing through distortion the contours that lead from language to language across the decades.
Oct 26, 2021