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
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
Texts & Translation
קאָמיטעט צו זאַמלען מאַטעריאַלן װעגן ייִדישן חורבן אין פּױלן, 1939. ביולעטין נומער 3
Committee for the Collection of Materials on the Destruction of the Jews in Poland, 1939. Bulletin no. 3
A bulletin produced by the Vilna Komitet in 1939, included in Miriam Schulz’s recent book, Der Beginn des Untergangs: Die Zerstörung der jüdischen Gemeinden in Polen und das Vermächtnis des Wilnaer Komitees (“Before the bow that was drawn”: The Vilna Komitet and its documentation of the destruction of Polish Jewry), presented here in a new translation.
May 14, 2018
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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