Celebrating the Yiddish Book Center Community

New Published Translations

Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellows Jacob Romm (2022) and Dalia Wolfson (2021) were featured in Asymptote Journal’s January 2023 issue for their respective translations of Menke Katz and Yente Serdatsky. Alona Bach, 2022 Translation Fellow, can be heard reading an excerpt from Serdatsky’s translated essay in its original Yiddish.

Read four poems by Menke Katz, translated by Jacob Romm

Read “Our Literature” by Yente Serdatsky, translated by Dalia Wolfson

New Awards

The 72nd National Jewish Book Awards recognized friends and colleagues of the Center, including:

• Josh Lambert, Yiddish Book Center board member—The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature (finalist, American Jewish Studies)
• Kenneth B. Moss, guest lecturer for Steiner Summer Yiddish Program—An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award in History)
• Irena Klepfisz, Di froyen keynote presenter—Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971–2021 (finalist, Poetry)
• Sasha Senderovich, Great Jewish Books Summer Program faculty member—How the Soviet Jew Was Made (finalist, Modern Jewish Thought and Experience)
• Maya Rabinowitz, Madison Hahamy, Emanuelle Sippy, Leah Fleischer, Maya Savin Miller, Abigael Good, Elena Eisenstadt, Dalia Heller, Great Jewish Books Summer Program participants—Salt & Honey: Jewish Teens on Feminism, Creativity, and Tradition (finalist, Young Adult Literature) View the full list of winners and finalists

Also, former Translation Fellows Jordan Finkin and Allison Schachter (2017) and Justin Cammy (2018) were awarded The Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies by the MLA for their respective translations of From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories, by Fradl Shtok (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2021) and From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony, by Abraham Sutzkever (McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2021).