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.
Text & Translation
לידער פֿון טאָגבוך
Three poems from Poems from my Diary
Abraham Sutzkever
Translation by Maia Evrona
Three poems from Abraham Sutzkever’s collection Poems from My Diary.
Dec 05, 2016
Text & Translation
אָאַזיס
Poems from Oasis
Abraham Sutzkever
Translation by James Nadel
New translations of six poems from Sutzkever’s 1960 collection Oasis.
Dec 20, 2015
Text & Translation
סיביר
Siberia
Abraham Sutzkever
Translation by Richard J. Fein
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
Text & Translation
אַ לוויה אין רעגן
A Funeral in the Rain
Abraham Sutzkever
Translation by Zackary Sholem Berger
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