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.

Texts & Translation

פּאַריז

Paris

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

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לידער פֿון טאָגבוך

Three poems from Poems from my Diary

Three poems from Abra­ham Sutzkever’s col­lec­tion Poems from My Diary.

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אָאַזיס

Poems from Oasis

New trans­la­tions of six poems from Sutzkev­er’s 1960 col­lec­tion Oasis.

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סיביר

Siberia

Sutzkev­er’s cycle of poems about his child­hood years spent in Siberia: In the light-dark snowed-under / vil­lage of my child­hood in Siberia / blos­soms bloom from shad­ows’ eyes— / count­less quick­sil­ver blossoms…”

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אַ לוויה אין רעגן

A Funeral in the Rain

A prose poem from Abra­ham Sutzkev­er’s 1975 vol­ume Green Aquar­i­um. A man with a heavy bag on his back approach­es a dark city in a rainstorm…” 

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