Yiddish became one of the world’s most widespread languages. But it was considered a dying language for decades after two-thirds of European Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Now the COVID-19 ...
From The World and PRX, this is The Number in the News. Today’s number: 80. The worldwide sensation that is the "Harry Potter" series has been translated into over 80 languages. One of the latest ...
Penn professor Kathryn Hellerstein discusses Yiddish poetry translation at Kelly Writers House event
Kelly Writers House hosted an event about Yiddish women’s poetry on Feb. 19. Credit: Sanjana Juvvadi Penn Yiddish professor Kathryn Hellerstein discussed the role of translation in Yiddish women’s ...
A translation into Yiddish of the Book of Ecclesiastes has just been completed by Rabbi J. L. Zlotnik, Executive Director of the Zionist Organization of Canada. Rabbi Zlotnik’s translation is in ...
Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...
The appearance in Israel of an anthology of works of Yiddish poets throughout the world translated into Hebrew by Moshe Basuk, an Israeli poet, was celebrated here last night at an impressive ...
A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a National Jewish Book Award shows, such a work is not only real, it testifies to ...
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