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Excerpt Excerpt — When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers Ken Krimstein November 15, 2021
Children’s A Snake, a Flood, a Hidden Baby: Bible Stories for Children Meir Shalev, Ilana Kurshan (Translator), Emanuele Luzzati (Illustrator)
Essay A Return to the Source: On Translating Tobie Nathan’s ‘A Land Like You’ Joyce Zonana June 14, 2021
Interview Setting Yiddish Poetry to Music: A Conversation with Alex Weiser Miranda Cooper May 3, 2021
Nonfiction Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine Amelia M. Glaser
Poetry Now at the Threshold: The Late Poems of Tuvia Ruebner Tuvia Ruebner, Rachel Tzvia Black (trans.)
Nonfiction From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony Abraham Sutzkever, Justin D. Cammy (Editor, Translator)