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

מיטן פּנים צו דער צוקונפֿט

Facing the Future: Reflecting on Fifty Years of Zionism and the Bund

Leivick Hodes writes, in Madeleine Cohen’s translation, of the trajectory of the Bund and other political movements in 1947, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Bund and Zionism.

Jun 11, 2026

Bund

Zionism

Holocaust

essay

translation

Texts & Translation

איציקל דער גאָלדקלאַפּער

Itzikl, der Goldklaper

A story by Meir Kucinski about goldklapers, itinerant gold-buying peddlers in Brazil, collaboratively translated by the members of the São Paolo–based Yidishe Trupe.

Mar 22, 2026

Latin America

translation

Texts & Translation

װינטער פֿאַרנאַכט

Soir d’hiver

Sebastian Schulman invites readers to engage with francophone Québec through a translation of Émile Nelligan’s “Soir d’hiver.”

Jul 11, 2022

Canada

French

translation

Texts & Translation

Chava Rosenfarb’s Translations into Yiddish of Two English-Language Jewish-Canadian Writers

Newly-discovered Yiddish translations by Chava Rosenfarb of two Jewish-Canadian authors.

Jul 05, 2022

translation

Canada

Women in Translation

Texts & Translation

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