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'Really? Show Me!': Rising to the Challenge of Yiddish Translation

Sarah Gordon
2011-08-25

Ruth Fay Solomon
2021-03-09

Moishe Dolman
2012-07-10

White Goat Press
White Goat Press brings new translations of Yiddish literature to English readers.

"Start With the Greats": A Beginner's Guide to Yiddish Poetry

"Be Hallowed" and "Mode"
Two poems from Glatstein's 1953 collection, "Father's Shadow," translated by Andrew Sunshine.
American Yiddish Poetry: Reading Resources
The third selection for the 2018 Great Jewish Books Book Club

1000 Essential Yiddish Books
A guide to the 1000 most essential Yiddish books in our collection

Celebrating Yiddish Poetry
Items by and about Yiddish poets and poetry from our collections.

The Small Opinions of Great Men
” by G. Selikovitch, translated by Corbin Allardice, Matthew Johnson, Jessica Kirzane, and Jonah Lubin

May 2020: Handpicked
Josh Lambert is the Yiddish Book Center academic director. After delving into his selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Josh about his choices.

"Stories of Exile" Reading Groups for Public Libraries 2023
A reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora.

“Letters,” “To Miriam Ulinover,” and “Letters”
by Rivka Basman Ben-Haim and Miriam Ulinover, translated by Kathryn Hellerstein

To America
By Aaron Glanz-Leyeles, translated by Oliver Elkus. An ode to the promise of America.

"A Letter to My Mother"
by Mordecai Kosover, translated by Ruth Solomon

The Modernists
Yiddish modernists and literary rebels

Adrian Silver
2014-08-21

Voices from the Holocaust
Some of the great Yiddish writers who documented their experiences in the Holocaust

America and I
By Aaron Glanz-Leyeles, translated by Zackary Sholem Berger. The paean of a settled immigrant.