My translations from Yiddish are listed below, grouped according to Yiddish author.
I am available for freelance translation work.
Miriam Karpilove
Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle against Free Love (Syracuse University Press, 2020)
Judith: a tale of love and woe (Farlag Press, 2022)
A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories (Syracuse University Press, 2023)
“Freydl” in Columbia Journal
“New York’s First-Time Women Voters” in Jewish Currents
“Chicago” in Another Chicago Magazine
“Theatre: A Sketch” in Digital Yiddish Theatre Project
“I am my own lady messiah” in Jewish Review of Books
Pessie Pomerantz-Honigbaum
“Red Dew” on the website of the Yiddish Book Center
“With Golden Steps over Earth” in Pakn Treger
“String of Beads” in The Antonym
“Lake Michigan,” “At a Symphony Concert” and “Under Seven Masks” in Absinthe.
Shloyme Shvarts (Selwyn Schwartz)
“Monday Blue” and “Prairie Suns” in AzonaL, reprrinted, along with “By the Shores of Lake Michigan” in Absinthe.
Perets Hirshbeyn
excerpts from Across America:
“New York” In Pakn Treger , Reprinted in The Abandoned Book: A New Collection of Yiddish Translations and How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
“Yiddish” in Trinity Journal of Literary Translation
A. Almi (Elyash)
“Father of the Whole World” in Jewish Currents
Ber Kotlerman
“Sevenfold (A Lamentation)” in In geveb
“New Creation” in In geveb
Other
“Workers Circle Branch 692 in Miami Beach” in Jewish Currents
Yenta Serdatsky
“The Friends” in Pakn Treger 2025 Translation Issue
“Cribside” in Pakn Treger 2022 Translation Issue
“An Old Woman with Young Dreams” in Pakn Treger 2019 Translation Issue
“She Waits,” “The Young Widow,” and “The Loyal Cousin” in Have I Got a Story For You: More than a Century of Yiddish Fiction from the Forward. (Norton, 2016)
“Platonic Love” in Jewishfiction.net
“Search for the Woman” in Pakn Treger 2014 Translation Issue. Reprinted in The Abandoned Book: A New Collection of Yiddish Translations.
Joseph Opatoshu
“A Lynching” in In geveb
Rachel Luria
“The Illusion” in JewishFiction.net
Leon Kobrin
“Blessed is the True Judge” in In geveb
Rosa Palatnik
“Ne’ilah” and “The Yom Kippur Light Went Out” on the website of the Yiddish Book Center
Hava Shapiro
“Elisheva the Poet” (with Sonia Gollance) in To Tread on New Ground: Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro. Ed. Carole Balin and Wendy Zierler. (Wayne State University Press, 2014)
Dora Schulner
“Recollections About N. M. Shaykevitsh (Shomer)” in Pakn Treger, December 2019.
Y. Adler
“Elul,” in CCAR Journal, December 2018.
Getsl Zelikovitsh
“The Institute for Facial Reform” on the Yiddish Book Center website
Eli Sharfshteyn
“A Dark Dawn” in In geveb
Jessica Kirzane 