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

Erasing the Written, Rewriting the Erased: A Fragmented and Imperfect Tribute to Vogel

Zackary Sholem Berg­er ren­ders two poems by Vogel anew via the poet­ic method of trans­la­tion-era­sure, reveal­ing through dis­tor­tion the con­tours that lead from lan­guage to lan­guage across the decades. 

Texts & Translation

Lwowska Juderia

Lwów’s Jewish Quarter

Deb­o­ra Vogel’s 1935 essay, Lwows­ka Jud­e­ria, gives us a valu­able snap­shot of Lwów’s Jew­ish streets with an eye to the modern.

Texts & Translation

דער פֿערציקיעריקער מאַן

The Forty-Year-Old Man

New trans­la­tions of four sec­tions from Mark­ish’s book-length mod­ernist poem. 

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