Number 61
Spring 2010 / 5771

Pakn Treger: The Magazine Of The Yiddish Book Center

Features

 What we say, and what we think about it
 Out of the Vilna ghetto to a world of color and form
 In memory of Abraham Sutzkever, 1913-2010
 

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.
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.

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.
Summer 2008 / 5768
A tribute to musical pioneer, Ruth Rubin; the photography of Roman Vishniac; and Peretz in Czernowitz, 1908.

Spring 2008 / 5768
Contemporary Jewish Poland, a Yiddish dictionary from France, "Where we come from" interviews, and more.
Fall 2007 / 5768
Newly discovered drawings by Zuni Maud; anthropologist Ruth Behar's Journey to Jewish Cuba; and poet Jacob Glatstein in translation.

Summer 2007/5767
An interview with Aaron Lansky, Yiddish On Israeli Streets by Benjamin Weiner, and a translation of Nokh alemen.
Spring 2007 / 5767
An interview with Allegra Goodman; a Japanese and Yiddish informed story by Edith Pearlman, and an installman "Let's Learn  Yiddish!"

Fall 2006/5767
Ilan Stavans on Rosten's "Joys of Yiddish;" an account of a literary tour of Eastern Europe; and Itsik Gottesman's "Let’s Learn Yiddish."
Summer 2006/ 5766
"The Rosenbach Co.," a brilliant pop musical; book rescue in Uruguay; and a translation of "Mayne Kinderyorn" (My Childhood Years)