Pakn Treger

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"How to Live in Yiddish: A Teacher’s Tale by Hannah Pollin
(3,464 KB PDF)
Teacher and students alike are novices in the Steiner Summer Internship Program, but they are quick to learn.

" Thinking Aloud: The Education of Maurice Samuel by Ilan Stavans
(1,249KB PDF)
Though the man who made his career by bringing Yiddish books to English readers is nearly unknown today, his subtle influence prevails.

What Makes a Man Go Bad? by Caraid O’Brien
Translating, interpreting, and performing a 1915 Yiddish play about a prostitute and a thief is the passion of a young Irish scholar and actor. Why?

  TRANSLATION  

Beryl-Izyk by Sholem Aleichem. Translated by Curt Leviant.
(3,880 KB PDF)
A savvy raconteur returns from America and gives his fellow Kasrilevkites a taste of “the truth.”

  DEPARTMENTS  

• From the Editor
  
• A Bintl Brief
• Calendar of Coming Events at the Book Center
• Outwitting History: The 25th Anniversary Campaign
  for the National Yiddish Book Center
• From Our Collection: Birds of America by Catherine Madsen
• Field Notes Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman by Catherine Madsen

• Audio excerpts of our new translations -- in Yiddish
• Past and current issues of Pakn Treger
• The Jewish Reader: our online monthly book guide