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    2017 Pakn Treger Translation Issue: A Collection of Newly Translated Yiddish Works By Women Writers
    2017 Pakn Treger Translation Issue: A Collection of Newly Translated Yiddish Works By Women Writers
    2017 Pakn Treger Translation Issue: A Collection of Newly Translated Yiddish Works By Women Writers
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    2017 Pakn Treger Translation Issue: A Collection of Newly Translated Yiddish Works By Women Writers

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    This anthology of newly translated Yiddish works of poetry, fiction, and memoir by women writers takes the reader from the Soviet Union, where families struggle to survive and to live their lives as Jews; to the Warsaw Ghetto, where heroic librarians distribute books to Jewish children; to Los Angeles, where the destruction of a community to make way for a freeway is described in tones reminiscent of Holocaust poetry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 18, 2017
    ISBN9780989373142
    2017 Pakn Treger Translation Issue: A Collection of Newly Translated Yiddish Works By Women Writers

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      2017 Pakn Treger Translation Issue - Pakn Treger

      This digital anthology

      has been made

      possible by

      Dr. Joann Halpern

      in memory of

      Ariel Halpern.

      Table of Contents

      A Tale

      by Soreh Ayzn, translated by Hinde Ena Burstin

      The Librarians

      by Rachel Auerbach, translated by Seymour Levitan

      Springtime Back Home and Seems It Had to Be

      by Rokhl Korn, translated by Miriam Isaacs

      Freeways

      by Brooche Coodley, translated by Miri Koral

      A Seder in the Taiga

      by Yenta Mash, translated by Ellen Cassedy

      High Doorsteps

      by Shira Gorshman, translated by Faith Jones

      I Have Seen

      by Rosa Nevadovska, translated by Merle Bachman

      Untitled (from My Days)

      by Bertha Kling, translated by Leah Zazulyer

      Operating Room

      by Rokhl Korn, translated by Murray Citron

      Does It Mean I Long for You

      by Malka Locker, translated by Ri Turner

      Acacias Bloom

      by Dvoyre Fogel, translated by Anastasiya Lyubas

      Introduction

      Immediately after we published last year’s Pakn Treger Translation Issue , we received an email from one of our readers, a longtime member of the Yiddish Book Center. I’m paraphrasing, but the email went something like this: Where were the women writers?

      I wrote back with an explanation: we had very few submissions of works by women. Many of the translators who submitted to the issue were women; indeed, the issue featured more female translators than male translators. But with very few submissions of texts written by women, it wasn’t surprising that we only published two (a poem and a story) in the last issue.

      I realized while composing the email that the problem was larger than the small number of submissions. Women regularly translate writing by men, but men hardly ever seem to translate writing by women. As a sometime translator, I knew that I was guilty myself. Not once had I ever attempted to translate a poem or story or essay written by a woman. Later I attended a conference on gender and Yiddish literature. The scholars were equally divided between men and women, but almost all of the papers were about books written by men. Again I realized that the problem cut deeper. I could name many Yiddish women poets. I have even written about several. But I had read very few short stories or novels written in Yiddish by women, and I couldn’t even name more than a few. Their stories and novels were rarely on the syllabi of courses I’d taken, and I had rarely sought out their fiction to read for pleasure. If we wanted to encourage more scholarship about and more translation of books written by women, then we had to start at the beginning. We had to encourage the act of reading.

      We are pleased to present this special Pakn Treger Translation Issue devoted to writing by women. It contains poetry, prose poetry, fiction, and memoir. The two short stories thrust the reader into the Soviet Union and the challenges of scarcity. They depict people struggling to live—to eat, to raise their children—as well as struggling to live as Jews. Likewise, the memoir describes the struggle to survive spiritually in the Warsaw Ghetto and the heroic efforts of librarians to distribute books to Jewish children. The poetry describes a wealth of personal experiences without shying away from communal responsibilities. In one, Freeways, the poet, in tones reminiscent of Holocaust poetry, describes the destruction of her neighborhood in Los Angeles, the destruction of her community, to make space for a highway.

      This issue helps to address the relative scarcity of translations of Yiddish women writers. We also hope that it inspires the reader to continue reading works by women. There are several important translation anthologies of writing by women: Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers (1994), Arguing the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers (2007), and The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers (2013). You can find wonderful and challenging short stories by women in our Pakn Treger anthology The Abandoned Book and Other Yiddish Stories (2016). More on Yiddish women poets can also be found in Faith Jones’s article in the fall 2016 Pakn Treger, Problematic, Fraught, Confusing, Paralyzing—and Fantastic, about a 1927 anthology of Yiddish women’s poetry, and in Kathryn Hellerstein’s A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586–1987 (2014).

      —Eitan Kensky

      Director of Collections Initiatives

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