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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קערנדלעך װײץ
Grains of Wheat
A new, dynamic translation of Abraham Sutzkever’s poem about the burial and regeneration of “the Jewish word.”
Jan 06, 2025
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פּאַריז
Paris
Annabel Cohen translates Abraham Sutzkever’s poem, “Paris.”
Dec 06, 2022
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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.
Dec 05, 2016
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אָאַזיס
Poems from Oasis
New translations of six poems from Sutzkever’s 1960 collection Oasis.
Dec 20, 2015
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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...”
Sep 08, 2015
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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...”
Aug 12, 2015