Texts & Translations

A short sto­ry by Rosa Palat­nik about two Purim pageants set in Poland and Brazil. 

Mar 13, 2025

A sto­ry by union leader Ben Gold (1898−1985) based on his expe­ri­ence of forty days in a Delaware prison. 

Feb 26, 2025

A new, dynam­ic trans­la­tion of Abra­ham Sutzkev­er’s poem about the bur­ial and regen­er­a­tion of ​“the Jew­ish word.” 

Jan 06, 2025

An excerpt from Avrom Nokhem Sten­cl’s mem­oirs of urban wan­der­ing in Weimar Berlin. 

Nov 10, 2024

Ayzik Meir Dik’s satir­i­cal sto­ry about the week­end two Jew­ish pro­fes­sion­als (a won­der­work­er and a can­tor) came to stay in the town of Duratshishok. 

Nov 04, 2024

Sonia Gol­lance trans­lates Arciszewska’s poem about Yom Kip­pur can­dles and post­war memory. 

Oct 08, 2024

Sasha Hoff­man trans­lates Rachel Wish­nitzer Bern­stein’s essay on the theme of the lion tamer in Jew­ish art. 

Jun 25, 2024

Tal Hev­er-Chy­bows­ki trans­lates Yoy­sef Papy­ernikov’s ​“The Cry of Hun­gry Chil­dren” for In geve­b’s ongo­ing series on Yid­dish lit­er­ary respons­es to the war. 

Jun 10, 2024

A trans­la­tion of I. J. Singer’s reportage on Harlem cabarets. 

May 22, 2024

Avro­hom Eliy­ohu Plotkin served as the rab­bi of Ostashkov, a provin­cial town mid­way between Moscow and Leningrad, after the Russ­ian Rev­o­lu­tion, at a time when the Jew­ish Sec­tions (Evsek­t­si­ia) of the Com­mu­nist Par­ty — sup­port­ed by oth­er agents of the Sovi­et state — were forcibly clos­ing all the insti­tu­tions that made Jew­ish reli­gious life pos­si­ble. In 1927, Ray­atz was arrest­ed in Leningrad and sen­tenced to death. An inter­na­tion­al pres­sure cam­paign secured a com­mu­ta­tion and safe pas­sage to Latvia. ​“Kad­dish Denied” is a semi-auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal tale that unfolds in the after­math of Rayatz’s arrest and departure. 

Apr 11, 2024