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 House on Feb. 19.

Yoel Matveyev, the Forverts’ correspondent in Russia, was sitting alone in a Moscow train station in the middle of the night, when he suddenly got the inspiration to translate the Russian song, ...

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 has been made to represent the failure of Jewish life in Europe,” remarked Mindl Cohen, academic director of the Yiddish Book Center. Connecting Yiddish with shtetls, pogroms and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

For all its global pretensions, the Internet barely knows from languages. Only five percent of the world’s 7,000-plus languages have a robust presence online, according to a recent study, and digital ...

A seasoned Jewish writer and Yiddish translator analyzes why "sparks flew" during the maestro's 80th birthday celebration at ...

Sacvan Bercovitch, an influential scholar in the field of American studies and a translator of Sholem Aleichem and other Yiddish writers, died Dec. 9 at 81. Bercovitch’s early works — “The Puritan ...

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 late, great Yiddish ...