Texts & Translations

Sebas­t­ian Schul­man invites read­ers to engage with fran­coph­o­ne Québec through a trans­la­tion of Émile Nelligan’s ​“Soir d’hiv­er.”

Jul 11, 2022

New­ly-dis­cov­ered Yid­dish trans­la­tions by Cha­va Rosen­farb of two Jew­ish-Cana­di­an authors. 

Jul 05, 2022

An excerpt about hasidic yeshi­va edu­ca­tion and sec­u­lar stud­ies from Katle Kanye’s Vetinok Lelam­do Sefer.

Jun 23, 2022

A sonorous trans­la­tion of a poem about the Lodz ghet­to by Cha­va Rosenfarb. 

Jun 07, 2022

A sin­is­ter chil­dren’s sto­ry by Joseph Opatoshu. 

Apr 21, 2022

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

Mar 23, 2022

a snip­pet of Miri­am Karpilove’s snark

Mar 16, 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

An excerpt from Yitzkhok Horow­itz’s Mayn Tatns Kretshme

Dec 09, 2021