Golden translates from Yiddish. GOLDEN: I drift, drift into sleep, becoming a desert dream. ESTRIN: This space, a hybrid synagogue and Jewish bookstore, is called Der Nister. GOLDEN: Der Nister ...

(JTA) — Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters” — the last novel by the ...

Q: I want to ask about translating a writer of Grade’s stature, but first, Rose, I want to ask how you came to be a Yiddish translator in the first place. Rose Waldman: I’m a native Yiddish ...

He reads first in Yiddish — a linguistic blend of German with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic, and other European influences — and then in English. “The waves will cradle me and whisper ‘peace, shalom,’” he ...

typeset in Yiddish, that was clearly based on the serialized chapters in Tog-Morgn Zhurnal and Forverts—became accessible. Thus, the new book can finally appear in an excellent translation by ...

For whatever reasons, including possible mental instability, she foiled almost every attempt to publish his work, whether in Yiddish or in translation. After his death, she signed a contract with ...

Credit: Sanjana Juvvadi Penn Yiddish professor Kathryn Hellerstein discussed the role of translation in Yiddish women’s poetry and its influence on literary history at an event hosted by Kelly Writers ...

a 2024-2025 senior scholar at the Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimony at Yale University and a Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow. “Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish” is her ...

It’s believed to be the last piece he wrote. Another gem is a Yiddish translation and musical notation for the “Un di felice eterea” aria in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “La Traviata.” ...

This makes me think that thoughts about the Jewish community in Hungary may be in the Yiddish portion of the manuscript. And this manuscript may be important to translate for other reasons.