She was a yiddish book center translation fellow in 2018, with translation. Translation 2019 my father, mordecai kosover, of blessed memory, who died in 1969, was a dedicated professor of hebrew and arabic and a yiddish writer. Visit an apple store, call 1800myapple, or find a reseller. The story behind newly translated yiddish correspondence. Pakn treger yiddish for book peddler, the magazine of the yiddish book center, is an englishlanguage magazine that covers subjects related to yiddish culture and literature as well as news from the center. She is also a twotime alumna of the yiddish book center s steiner summer yiddish program, and a former yiddish book center. A collection of audio books, recorded programs and multimedia resources from the yiddish book center. Episode 0223 june 20, 2019 yiddish book center amherst, massachusetts.
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. We offer fellowships and courses for high school students, college students. Saving a million yiddish books was just the beginning. She has also translated poetry by anna margolin, yoysef kerler, malka lee, and others. Its annual translation issue, a digital publication, features newly translated works of yiddish literature. Our priority now is to advance knowledge of the content and literary and cultural progeny of the books weve saved. Its annual translation issue, a digital publication, features newly translated works of yiddish. The reading groups will introduce libraries and the public to yiddish literature in translation. With that in mind, weve built this translation issue as a kind of journey.
The 2015 pakn treger translation issue yiddish book center. Alexis aaeng is a graduate of the university of colorado boulder, where she received a dual degree in history and jewish studies and wrote her undergraduate thesis about yiddish radio. The pieces included in this years anthology provide a window into the personal lives of yiddish writers. A collection of newly translated yiddish works centered around travel, movement, and migration.
Yiddish is a literature of movement and migration, exile and wandering. The general shape of the brides face may be visible, but the texture of her lips is concealed. Listen to the story below, read by peter riegert and recorded by the yiddish book center, and read a full english translation. In early february, the yiddish book center fellows traveled to new york city to pick up a donation of more than one thousand yiddish books from the personal library of yiddish author moyshe shtarkman.
Yiddish book center is the author of 2015 pakn treger translation issue 1. Yiddish correspondence, letters in translation, madeleine mindl cohen, the shmooze, yiddish book center podcast, lisa newman mindl cohen joins us on the shmooze to talk about the 2019 pakn treger digital translation issue, a collection of letters and stories about letters. The 2017 pakn treger translation issue is available on our site here all pieces are linked below or you can download it as an e book to your kindle, ipad, or nook to download to your kindle. Read on for more information about the family who donated the volumes and the significance of this special addition to the yiddish book center s collection. When the work is done, there will be a new place for people of all ages and backgrounds to come and learn about the roots of modern jewish culture and creativity. Yiddish literature absorbed different colors as it zigzagged the globe, encountered different people, lived under different politics. An english language anthology of newly translated yiddish prose, poetry, and drama. Pakn treger digital translation issues yiddish book center. Yiddish book center, 2015 pakn treger translation issue. Leafing through the pages, youll be transported from the shtetlekh of eastern europe to the plains of south africa, the deserts of israel, and the streets of new york. Email april update from the national yiddish book center. National yiddish book center is a libraries, historical societies and landmark preservation charity located in amherst, ma.
The 20 pakn treger digital translation issue works by blume lempel, sarah hamerjacklyn, avrom karpinovitsh, and other yiddish writers, newly translated to english yiddish book center. A dignified mister, whos more interested in my writing than in me as a person, says to me. The 2019 pakn treger digital translation issue is available on our site here all pieces are linked below or you can download it as an ebook to your kindle. The award recognizes the yiddish book center s ongoing efforts to raise the profile of literature in translation, to train and mentor a new generation of yiddish translators, and to bring. Contributors the yiddish book centers great jewish. Jessica began working on this translation in 2017 as a yiddish book center translation fellow. The shmooze, the yiddish book centers podcast on apple. Yiddish book center fellowship program 20162017 ceeres. I work in the translation department of the yiddish book center, and my earliest exposure to yiddish literature was in translation, so i find larry rosenwalds arguments on what makes a good translation. It is only in the past several years that i have become deeply involved with his writings and research that resides in the archival collections of the jewish theological seminary in new york city. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate yiddish. She is earning a phd in english and judaic studies at the university of michigan on an endelmangitelman fellowship. National yiddish book center is rated 3 out of 4 stars by charity navigator.
Yiddish book center, 1021 west st, amherst, ma 2020. Whether writing of a letter containing a blade of grass from. Maia evronas translations of avrom sutzkever were awarded a fellowship in translation from the nea in 2016 and have been widely published. Her own poetry was included, in her own yiddish self translation, in the yiddish book center s anthology radiant jargon. Were about to break ground on the 21,000squarefoot addition to the national yiddish book center s permanent headquarters in amherst, ma. Spains most prominent performance artist friday, april 20, 2018. Assist the director of the yiddish language institute as a teaching assistant for.
The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate yiddish and modern jewish literature and culture. A collection of newly translated yiddish letters and writing about correspondence 2019 pakn treger digital translation issue yiddish book center skip to main content. In our latest digital translation issue of pakn treger, youll find yiddish prose, poetry, and drama newly translated into english. In the yiddish book center s third annual pakn treger translation issue, an anthology of yiddish works newly translated into english, postmodernist yiddish writers rub shoulders with turnofthecentury jokesters and masters of yiddish short fiction, in stories set in wartime central asia, warsaw, and revolutionary russia. Yiddish book center award from london book fair jewish. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
Features books and gifts related to yiddish language and culture. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading a moveable shtetl. The novel, framed from the point of view of a diarist writing in firstperson about her own love life, explores issues of womens empowerment and disempowerment around sexuality and politics and offers a snarky, melodramatic criticism of radical. Yiddish book center publishes the 2018 pakn treger. Director of online interpreter and translator training speaks to wgbys carrie saldo wednesday, august 22, 2018. Read new translations of yiddish literature, learn about the yiddish book centers translation initiative, and white goat.
Charity navigator rating for national yiddish book center. The 2014 pakn treger translation issue yiddish book center. Yiddish book center picks shaker heights library for. Our annual anthology of newly translated yiddish literature. The shmooze talks with yiddish professor and translator jessica kirzane, a threetime alumna of the yiddish book center, about the recent publication of her translation of miriam karpiloves diary of a lonely girl, or the battle against free love, first published serially in the yiddish daily newspaper di varhayt in 191618. The 2018 pakn treger translation issue is available on our site here all pieces are linked below or you can download it as an e book to your kindle, nook, kobo, or ipad to download to your kindle. Yiddish book center publishes the 2018 pakn treger translation issue wednesday, august 22, 2018.
Dont you ever get weary of lowering yourself into the depths of human life to fish out the most. Immediately after we published last years pakn treger translation issue, we received an email from. A yiddish abc primer donated to the center in 2003 that carries an interesting storyrelayed in a letter found within the book recently by our metadata librarian michelle sigiel and written by the. Shaker heights public library has been selected for the yiddish book center. In the yiddish book center s third annual pakn treger translation issue, an anthology of yiddish works newly translated into english, postmodernist yiddish writers rub shoulders with turnofthecentury jokesters and masters of yiddish short fiction, in stories set in wartime central asia. An english language anthology of translations of yiddish poetry, prose, memoir, and drama. Its a brilliant tale, born of an old joke and transformed, through authorial artistry, into a meditation on the underlying uncertainties of modern jewish life. The 2017 pakn treger translation issue is available on our site here all pieces are linked below or you can download it as an ebook to your kindle, ipad. Recruit candidates for the center s translation fellowship, match fellows with mentors, organize workshops for translation fellows, and work on the annual translation issue of pakn treger, the magazine of the yiddish book center. Now featuring selections from the frances brandt online yiddish audio library and the sami rohr library of recorded yiddish books, produced by the yiddish book center in cooperation with the.
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