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2020 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue

A collection of newly translated Yiddish works about Jewish immigration and the encounter of Yiddish with America

Spring 2020

Pakn Treger, Number 80

"Dynamite on the Train" and other Memoirs by Jewish Women

Fall 2019/5780

2019 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue

A collection of newly translated Yiddish letters and writing about correspondence

Spring 2019

Pakn Treger, Number 79

The Yiddish Avant-Garde

Summer 2019 / 5779

Pakn Treger, Number 78

Modern in Autumn, The Illusionist, Whitechapel Noise, and Other Marvels of Modern Yiddish Culture

Fall 2018/5779

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Relaunching Our Greatest Yiddish Writer

Summer 2018 / 5778

2018 Pakn Treger Translation Issue

A collection of newly translated Yiddish works centered around travel, movement, and migration

Spring 2018

Pakn Treger, Number 76

Dreams, Murder, and the Persistence of Yiddish in the USSR

Fall 2017/ 5778

Pakn Treger, Number 75

Irrepressible: Rebellion, Transgression, and Youthful Expression in Modern Yiddish Culture

Summer 2017/ 5777

2017 Pakn Treger Translation Issue

A collection of newly translated Yiddish works by women writers

Spring 2017

Pakn Treger, Number 74

Book Makers: The Entrepreneurs Who Brought Yiddish Books to the World

Fall 2016 / 5777

Pakn Treger, Number 73

The expanse of Yiddish: in cafés, on the pampas, aboard trains

Summer 2016 / 5776

2016 Pakn Treger Translation Issue

Embark on a journey around the world, into the future and the past, "from eternity to eternity," with these newly translated treasures of Yiddish literature.

Spring 2016

Pakn Treger, Number 72

Peretz: Redux

Fall 2015

Pakn Treger, Number 71

Celebrating 35 Years

Summer 2015

The 2015 Pakn Treger Translation Issue

In our latest digital translation issue of Pakn Treger, you'll find Yiddish prose, poetry, and drama newly translated into English.

2015

Number 70

In the latest issue of Pakn Treger: Yiddish writers you ought to be reading

Fall 2014

Pakn Treger, Number 69

An in-depth look at Yiddish theater and its far-reaching influence

Summer 2014 / 5774

The 2014 Pakn Treger Translation Issue

An English language anthology of newly translated Yiddish prose, poetry, and drama.

2014 / 5774

The 2013 Pakn Treger Translation Issue

The first annual Translation Issue of Pakn Treger, the magazine of the Yiddish Book Center.

Fall 2013 / 5774

Pakn Treger, Number 68

Exploring the topic of education – from an account of the earlier “Cheder Years” to a feature about Yiddish learning

Fall 2013 / 5774

Pakn Treger, Number 67

The Food Issue

Summer 2013 / 5773

Pakn Treger, Number 66

Meet some of the Yiddish Pioneers featured in this issue of the Pakn Treger - from Yiddish farmers to a computational Yiddish linguist.

Fall 2012 / 5773

Pakn Treger, Number 65

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.

Summer 2012 / 5772

Pakn Treger, Number 64

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 of recordings by Yiddish writers from the Montreal Jewish Public L

Fall 2011 / 5772

Pakn Treger, Number 63

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.

Summer 2011 / 5771

Pakn Treger, Number 62

From the "Vilde khaye" of Maurice Sendak, to Yiddish in the Canadian Bible Belt.

Fall 2010 / 5771

Pakn Treger, Number 61

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.

Spring 2010 / 5771

Pakn Treger, Number 60

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.

Fall 2009 / 5770

Pakn Treger, Number 59

A conversation with Nathan Englander,"Ritz with a Shvitz," and a translation from Abraham Karpinovitch's story set in pre-war Vilna.

Spring 2009 / 5769

Pakn Treger, Number 57

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

Summer 2008 / 5768