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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די זילבערנע לײַכטערס
The Silver Candlesticks
Sonia Gollance translates Arciszewska’s poem about Yom Kippur candles and postwar memory.
Oct 08, 2024
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אַן אָפֿענער בריװ צו יענטע סערדאַצקי
An Open Letter to Yente Serdatsky
A translation of Der lebediker’s satirical letter to Yente Serdatsky.
Dec 07, 2023
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„מײַן טאַטע פֿאַרברענט מײַנע לידער“ און „דער שרײַבער־באַל...“
"My Father Burns My Poems" and "The Writer's Ball"
Translations of excerpts from Malka Lee’s memoir, Durkh kindershe oygn.
Dec 07, 2023
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צו מײַן ברודער אַבֿרהם רײזען
To My Brother Avrom Reisen
A translation of Sarah Reisen’s poem to her brother, Avrom.
Dec 07, 2023
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אַ פּאָר שעה אין פֿרױען־װעלט
A Few Hours in Women’s World
A translation of Chana Blankshteyn’s repotage on Sore Reyzn’s speech in the Women’s Union in March 1927.
Dec 07, 2023
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מײדלעך, פֿרױען, װײַבער און...נבואה
Girls, Women, Ladies and... Prophecy
A translation of Kadya Molodowsky’s response to Melech Ravitsh’s article about women writers.
Dec 07, 2023
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פֿראַדל שטאָק
Fradl Shtok
A translation of Rokhl Auerbach’s review of Fradl Shtok’s short story collection.
Dec 07, 2023
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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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Selections from Yidishe dikhterins
Reyzl Grace MoChridhe translates three poems by Hinde Roytblat and Dina Libkes, two Yiddish authors with Kyiv connections, selected from Ezra Korman’s Yidishe dikhterins anthology (1928).
Mar 09, 2022