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.
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טעג אין טורמע
Prison Time
A story by union leader Ben Gold (1898-1985) based on his experience of forty days in a Delaware prison.
Feb 26, 2025
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An Excerpt from Mississippi
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
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Selections from Neger-Dikhtung in Amerike (Negro-Poetry in America)
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
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לינטשערײַ
A Lynching
The gritty, and controversial 1920s account of a lynching by Joseph Opatoshu.
Jun 21, 2016
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די שקלאַפֿערײַ אָדער די לײַב־אייגנשאַפֿט
Slavery or Serfdom
Dik’s introduction to his 1868 translation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Nov 17, 2015