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

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

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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

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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