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אָפּקלינגענדיק איז דער הײליקער אות … אָבער דאָך קענט איר מיט אים זיך האַלטן? (מײַן איבערזעצונג פֿון דײַטש)

Pogrom beautiful name for a baby Cossack

@Yitzhuq Alas ...

@balmelokhe האסטו כאטש לאנגע פאות?

Going crazy bc I now have to face 20 yiddishists without the mustache on my face

on the task of translating Yiddish poetry to English (Hasye Cooperman, The Workmen's Circle Call, May 1964) "A translation must be brought up-to-date lest it become twice removed ..."

Blue beauty

patti smith is jewish??

@forsurenotjosh ngl he does look like that

@balmelokhe like they did him dirty

literary journal Shoybn (Windowpanes), no. 2, Bucharest, 1936 special issue dedicated to Eliezer Shteynberg, with woodcut by Arthur Kolnik some interesting inverse lettering

@forsurenotjosh ya he’s kind of melting

@balmelokhe if i was the ghost of eliezer shteynbarg i think i would not be happy with this depiction

criterion collection son or hbo daughter

the Warsaw-based Oyfgang, published postwar. look at that red

the visually rich Argentiner beymelekh, a monthly Yiddish children’s magazine published in Buenos Aires

@forsurenotjosh absolutely

@balmelokhe i feel honored to have been present when u said this in the parking lot yesterday

we should start translating “tsvishn” as “betwixt” more

"The illustration is of the angel of death, flanked by a skull and an hourglass. The large, decorated Hebrew letters state: "The end of man is to die" The illustration is done using micrography, e.g. depicting lines using small Hebrew characters. (1/2)

@ariel_haivri it's pretty fantastic. many gems in here

@balmelokhe ״די לבנה איז די בעסטע שדכנטע״ That’s awesome

"An aphorism is not a verse of Torah, but rather a Torah in a verse." — Yiddish book of aphorisms and thoughts by Yosef Bitensky, 1930, Vilna

A zis gebentsht yor (a sweet and blessed year) to come 🍎🍏 (letters drawn from Ben Shahn’s “The Alphabet of Creation”)

hey alma stealing a tweet i had tweeted over a year ago .. Ur content is debased

@forsurenotjosh i will do it ✅✅

@balmelokhe sorry Tyler but u actually do have a woeful duty to translate the remaining 98% of Yiddish literature :( Aaron told me so

manifesto for an upcoming Yiddish (poetry) translation workshop