Translations and Translators

Over here at the Jewish Book Council, we’re big fans of translations and translators. If you’re looking for a theme for your book club, this is a great one! See below for a few of our translated recommendations.

Cover of A Cat in the Ghetto

A Cat in the Ghetto

Rachmil Bryks; S. Morris Engel, trans.; Adam Rovner, fwd.

Cover of A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life

A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life

George Konrad; Jim Tucker, trans.; Michael Henry Heim, ed.

Cover of A Mad Desire to Dance

A Mad Desire to Dance

Elie Wiesel; Catherine Temerson, trans.

Cover of A Pigeon and a Boy

A Pigeon and a Boy

Evan Fallenberg, Meir Shalev

Cover of A Tale of Love and Darkness

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange, trans.

Cover of A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi

A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi

Primo Levi; Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli, trans.; Ann Goldstein, ed.

Cover of Aftershocks: Stories

Aftershocks: Stories

Grete Weil; John S. Barrett, trans.

Cover of All Russians Love Birch Trees

All Russians Love Birch Trees

Olga Grjasnowa; Eva Bacon, trans.

Cover of Amerika: The Missing Person

Amerika: The Missing Person

Franz Kafka; Mark Harman, trans.

Cover of At Night's End

Nir Baram, Jessica Cohen

Cover of Café Shira

David Ehrlich; Michael Swirsky, trans. 

Cover of Deceit

Yuri Felsen; Bryan Karetnyk, trans.

Cover of Everyday Jews: Scenes From a Vanished Life

Everyday Jews: Scenes From a Vanished Life

Yehoshue Perle; Maier Deshell & Margaret Birstein, trans.; David G. Roskies, ed.

Cover of Farewell, Shanghai

Farewell, Shanghai

Angel Wagenstein; Deliana Simeonova and Elizabeth Frank, trans.

Cover of Fiasco

Imre Kertesz; Tim Wilkinson, trans.

Cover of Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems

Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems

Nelly Sachs, Joshua Weiner (Translator)

Cover of From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories

From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories

Fradl Shtok, Allison Schachter and Jordan D. Finkin (Translators)

Cover of God's Horse and The Atheist's School

God's Horse and The Atheist's School

Wilhelm Dichter; Madeline G. Levine, trans.

Cover of Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories

Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories

Tadeusz Borowski, Madeline G. Levine (Translator)

Cover of HHhH

Laurent Binet; Sam Taylor, trans.

Cover of Hoffman's Hunger

Hoffman's Hunger

Leon De Winter; Arnold and Erica Pomerans, trans.

Cover of Homesick

Eshkol Nevo; Sondra Silverston, trans.

Cover of How To Love Your Daughter

How To Love Your Daughter

Hila Blum; Daniella Zamir, trans.

Cover of Inheritance (Yerushe)

Inheritance (Yerushe)

Peretz Markish; Mary Schulman, trans.

Cover of Inside Information

Inside Information

Eshkol Nevo; Sondra Silverston, trans.

Cover of Killing the Second Dog

Killing the Second Dog

Marek Hlasko; Tomasz Mirkowicz, trans.

Cover of Life on Sandpaper

Life on Sandpaper

Yoram Kaniuk; Anthony Berris, trans.

Cover of Love Today

Maxim Biller; Anthea Bell, trans.

Cover of Mazaltob

Blanche Bendahan; Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino, trans. 

Cover of Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans. with notes and commentary

Cover of Ordinary Jews

Yehoshue Perle; Shirley Kumove, trans.

Cover of On Her Own

Lihi Lapid; Sondra Silverston, trans.

Cover of Operation Bethlehem: An Espionage Thriller

Operation Bethlehem: An Espionage Thriller

Yariv Inbar; Dalit Shmueli, trans.

Cover of Our Holocaust

Amir Gutfreund; Jessica Cohen, trans.

Cover of Panorama

H. G. Adler; Peter Filkins, trans.

Cover of Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman

Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman

Frederich Christian Delius; Jamie Bulloch, trans.

Cover of Radiant Days, Haunted Nights: Great Tales From the Treasury of Yiddish Folk Literature

Radiant Days, Haunted Nights: Great Tales From the Treasury of Yiddish Folk Literature

Joachim Neugroschel, ed. and trans.

Cover of Reveries of the Wild Woman: Primal Scenes

Reveries of the Wild Woman: Primal Scenes

Hélène Cixous; Beverley Bie Brahic, trans.

Cover of Soul House

Mireille Gansel; Joan Seliger Sidney, trans.

Cover of Suddenly, a Knock at the Door

Suddenly, a Knock at the Door

Etgar Keret; Nathan Englander, Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston, trans.

Cover of Suite Francaise

Suite Francaise

Irène Némirovsky; Sandra Smith, trans.

Cover of Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son

Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son

Sholem Aleichem; Aliza Shevrin, trans.; Dan Miron, intro.

Cover of The Blindness of the Heart

The Blindness of the Heart

Julia Franck; Anthea Bell, trans.

Cover of The Book of Fathers

The Book of Fathers

Miklós Vámos; Peter Sherwood, trans.

Cover of The Canvas

Benjamin Stein; Brian Zumhagen, trans.

Cover of The Centaur in the Garden

The Centaur in the Garden

Moacyr Scliar; Margaret A. Neves, trans.

Cover of The Circumcision

The Circumcision

Gyorgy Dalos; Judith Sallosy, trans.

Cover of The Confessions of Noa Weber

The Confessions of Noa Weber

Gail Hareven; Dalya Bilu, trans.

Cover of The Death of the Adversary

The Death of the Adversary

Hans Keilson; Ivo Jarosy, trans.

Cover of The Family Mashber

The Family Mashber

Der Nister; Leonard Wolf, trans.; David Malouf, intro.

Cover of The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague

The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague

Yudl Rosenberg; Curt Leviant , trans. & ed.

Cover of The Hebrew Teacher

The Hebrew Teacher

Maya Arad; Jessica Cohen, trans. 

Cover of The Last Brother

The Last Brother

Nathacha Appanah; Geoffrey Strachan, trans.

Cover of The Oppermanns

Lion Feuchtwanger; James Cleugh, trans; Joshua Cohen, translation and introduction

Cover of The Morning Star

The Morning Star

André Schwarz-Bart; Julie Rose, trans.

Cover of The Salt Line

Youval Shimoni; Michael Sharp, trans;

Cover of Three Musketeers

Three Musketeers

Marcelo Birmajer; Sharon Woods, trans.

Cover of Three Plays: Dark River, Arthur Aronymus and His Ancestors, and I and I

Three Plays: Dark River, Arthur Aronymus and His Ancestors, and I and I

Else Lasker-Schüler; Jane Curtis, trans.; Inca Molina Rumold, ed.

Cover of To the End of the Land

To the End of the Land

David Grossman, Jessica Cohen

Cover of To This Day

S.Y. Agnon; Hillel Halkin, trans.

Cover of With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection

With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection

Hilde Domin; Sarah Kafatou, trans.

Cover of Where I Am

Dana Shem-Ur; Yardenne Greenspan, trans.

Cover of Victorious

Yishai Sarid; trans, Yardenne Greenspan

Cover of 18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages

18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages