2022 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue

Published: Summer 2022

The 2022 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue is available to read on our site (all pieces are linked below) and will be available for download as an e-book. Links will be added here when they are available.

Madeleine Cohen Translation Editor
Lisa Newman Executive Editor
Sonia Bloom Translation Editor
Margaret Frothingham Managing Editor
Greg Lauzon Copy Editor
Alexander Isley Inc. Art Direction and Design
Cover by Anita Kunz

Support for Pakn Treger comes from:

The Joseph and Marion Brechner Fund for Jewish Cultural Reporting
The Charles Corfield Fund for Pakn Treger
The Kaplen Fund for Pakn Treger
The Mark Pinson Fund for Pakn Treger

Copyright in each translation is held by the translator.

from black leyke

Introduction

By Madeleine Cohen.

 Woman ironing, painted with muted watercolors

Two Diaper Poems

By Ida Maze, translated by Ri J. Turner. "I Wash My Child's Diapers" and "Again I'm Washing Diaper Cloths."

 waiting by the door

Cribside: A Dramatization of Life in Politics

By Yenta Serdatsky, translated by Jessica Kirzane.

 cityscape

Spadina

By Yudica, translated by Faith Jones.

 jury listens

Fear

By Sarah B. Smith, translated by Dan Setzer.

 a mask sounds the funeral knell

The Powdered Corpse

By Rachel Luria, translated by Jonah Lubin.

 paris street

On Boulevard de Belleville

By Wolf Wieviorka, translated by Sarah Biskowitz.

 teaspoon

Naomi Speaks to Her Daughters-in-law

By Itzik Manger, translated by Murray Citron.

 mother and daughter

During Sleepless Nights

By Anna Margolin, translated by Daniel Kennedy.

 night effect

The Last Night

By Rikle Glezer, translated by Corbin Allardice and Jay Saper.

 Vitka Kempner

Heroic Young Women

By Shmerke Kaczerginski, translated by Lillian Leavitt.

 interrogation

At the Interrogation

By Lili Berger, translated by Judy Nisenholt.

 eye reflected back

To Rosa Palatnik

By Rokhl Kramf, translated by Abigail Weaver.

 reading

From My Childhood

By Rokhl Feygenberg, translated by Ruth Murphy.

 painted blue flower

Oh, My Language

By Roshelle Weprinsky, translated by Rebecca Weingart.

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