Texts & Translations

A new Yid­dish poem by Ber Kotler­man, com­posed on Mot­sei Sim­chat Torah 5784, and trans­lat­ed by Jes­si­ca Kirzane. 

Oct 17, 2023

Dov Green­wood trans­lates Avrom Liess­in’s haunt­ing poem about faith and fear on Yom Kippur. 

Sep 20, 2023

Annabel Cohen trans­lates Abra­ham Sutzkev­er’s poem, ​“Paris.”

Dec 06, 2022

A selec­tion of Osh­er Shvarts­man­’s poems trans­lat­ed into Eng­lish by Josh Price. 

Mar 23, 2022

Rey­zl Grace MoChrid­he trans­lates three poems by Hinde Royt­blat and Dina Libkes, two Yid­dish authors with Kyiv con­nec­tions, select­ed from Ezra Kor­man’s Yidishe dikhterins anthol­o­gy (1928).

Mar 09, 2022

An excerpt from Melekh Rav­it­sh’s mem­oirs on the Yid­dish writer’s encounter with Spin­oza­’s Ethics.

Feb 17, 2022

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

Eli Rosen­blatt intro­duces three poems by African Amer­i­can women poets of the Harlem Renais­sance, trans­lat­ed into Yid­dish by Robert Magid­off for the 1936 anthol­o­gy Neger-Dikhtung in Amer­i­ca (Negro-Poet­ry in Amer­i­ca), pub­lished in Moscow.

Jun 25, 2021

An alef­bet­i­cal voy­age into the cos­mos, in Jon­ah Lubin’s allit­er­a­tive translation

Apr 12, 2021

Two poems by Yoy­sef Kerler

Nov 01, 2020