Texts & Translations

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

Feb 26, 2025

An excerpt from Leyb Malakh’s Yid­dish-lan­guage play enti­tled Mis­sis­sip­pi, which was writ­ten and per­formed for the first time in War­saw in 1935.

Jun 25, 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

The grit­ty, and con­tro­ver­sial 1920s account of a lynch­ing by Joseph Opatoshu.

Jun 21, 2016

Dik’s intro­duc­tion to his 1868 trans­la­tion of Har­ri­et Beech­er Stowe’s nov­el, Uncle Tom’s Cab­in.

Nov 17, 2015