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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Yankev Morgenshtern
Manger memorializes the popular writer Yankev Morgenshtern (Jacob Morgenstern) in a fanciful biographical portrait.
Dec 09, 2025
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A Picture Speaks: A Page From a Diary
H. Leivick attempts to trace the elusive figure of a childhood friend in this short sketch.
Nov 03, 2025
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בײַ פֿאָרדן אין פֿאַבריק
In Ford’s Factory
Opatoshu reports on working conditions in a Ford factory in Detroit.
Oct 14, 2025
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אַ װאָרט אין דעם שטרײַט: ייִדיש, העברעיִש, שלום אַש
A Word in Edgewise: Yiddish, Hebrew, and Sholem Asch
Yisroel Rabon weighs in on language debates among Yiddishists in the wake of Sholem Asch’s visit to Palestine in 1936.
Jun 30, 2025
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די שמוגלערין
The Smuggler Girl
A gripping story by Rosa Palatnik about a girl smuggling goods over the Galician border.
May 16, 2025
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איך װאָלט געאװאָלט אַמאָל דײַן מאַמען זען
I Would Have Liked to See Your Mother Once
Reflections on motherhood in its absence - in time for Mother’s Day.
May 09, 2025
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אַ פּורים־מלכּה
A Purim Queen
A short story by Rosa Palatnik about two Purim pageants set in Poland and Brazil.
Mar 13, 2025
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טעג אין טורמע
Prison Time
A story by union leader Ben Gold (1898-1985) based on his experience of forty days in a Delaware prison.
Feb 26, 2025
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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
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די מאַלינע
The Hideaway
An excerpt from Avrom Nokhem Stencl’s memoirs of urban wandering in Weimar Berlin.
Nov 10, 2024