Pakn Treger

Number 2013
2013/5773

Pakn Treger: The Magazine Of The Yiddish Book Center

Features

A Vort Frier
Forward
Epitaph
An excerpt from Poems by Alter Esselin, translated By Joseph Esselin.
Simkhele Shoykhet
An excerpt from Shtot un shtetl by Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn, translated By Allison Posner.
The Strike of the Vilne Street-Walkers
An excerpt from Vilne mayn Vilne by Avrom Karpinovitsh, translated by Shimon Joffe
Stones Bloom
An excerpt from Toybn baym brunem by Rivka Basman Ben-Haim, translated By Zelda Kahan Newman.
General Meeting of the Kibbutz and Members of the Bialystok Movement, Bialystok February 27, 1943
An excerpt from Khurbn Vilne translated by Maurice Wolfthal.
An Excerpt from Der Melamed
By Ayzik Meyer Dik, translated by Ben Sadock.
My Departure
An excerpt from Lider un poemes by David Fram, translated by Hazel Frankel
Iz Er Shuldik?
An excerpt from Yankev Gordins eyns-akters by Jacob Gordin translated By Ruth Murphy
There is a Strange Flavor
An excerpt from Lider fun togbukh by Avrom Sutzkever, translated by Maia Evrona.
A Single Oy
An excerpt from Azoy zaynen mir geshtorbn by Levi Shalit, translated by Ellen Cassedy.
A Café on East Broadway
An excerpt from Seyfer yidish by Y.Y. Segal, translated by Seymour Levitan.
Neighbors Over the Fence
An excerpt from A rege fun emes by Blume Lempel, translated by Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub.
Before the Apples Fall
An excerpt from Poems by Alter Esselin translated by Joseph Esselin.
An Italian
An excerpt from Gezamlte verk VIII by Yoysef Opatoshu translated, by Stephen Simons
Death
An excerpt from Poems by Alter Esselin, translated by Joseph Esselin

Our English-language magazine carries on the tradition of the original pakn tregers, who traveled from shtetl to shtetl in Eastern Europe bringing books and news of the outside world.

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Pakn Treger, Number 66
Fall 2012/5773
Meet some of the Yiddish Pioneers featured in this issue of the Pakn Treger - from Yiddish farmers to a computational Yiddish linguist.  
Pakn Treger, Number 65
Summer 2012 / 5772
John Marchese reports on the spirited conference of nearly 100 minds discussing the future of Yiddish translation, and David Mazower recounts the relationship between Sholem Asch and his translators.

Pakn Treger, Number 64
Fall 2011 / 5772
Aaron Lansky lays out a "Road Map" for the Yiddish Book Center; David Mazower explores inscriptions that are as interesting as the books they're written in, and we explore a treasure trove...
Pakn Treger, Number 63
Summer 2011 / 5771
A Fellow describes how she and her colleagues save a writer's library; David Mazower explores Yiddish micrography; and Aaron Lansky makes the case for restoring the other half of Jewish identity.

Pakn Treger, Number 62
Fall 2010/ 5771
From the "Vilde khaye" of Maurice Sendak, to Yiddish in the Canadian Bible Belt.
Pakn Treger, Number 61
Spring 2010 / 5771
The spring/summer issue features an article on artist, Samuel Bak; a survey about the language of Jews in America; a reflection on the life of Abraham Sutzkever, and more.

Pakn Treger, Number 60
Fall 2009 / 5770
Read Esther Schor's article on Esperanto; David Shneer's account of Yiddish "In Front of the Iron Curtain;" and a translation of scenes from a shtetl marriage by Shea Tenenbaum.
Pakn Treger, Number 59
Spring 2009 / 5769
A conversation with Nathan Englander,"Ritz with a Shvitz," and a translation from Abraham Karpinovitch's story set in pre-war Vilna.

Pakn Treger, Number 58
Fall 2008 / 5769
Ken Turan on an encyclopedia of Jews; Stavans on Hebrew in Israel; and Skotsl Kumt, illustrated and translated by intern Lisa Anchin.
Pakn Treger, Number 57
Summer 2008 / 5768
A tribute to musical pioneer, Ruth Rubin; the photography of Roman Vishniac; and Peretz in Czernowitz, 1908.