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2020 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue
Coming to America
Published: Spring 2020
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Madeleine Cohen Translation Editor
Lisa Newman Executive Editor
Abigail Weaver Translation Managing Editor
Greg Lauzon Copyeditor
Alexander Isley Inc. Art Direction and Design
Cover illustration by Douglas Jones
Support for Pakn Treger comes from
The Kaplen Fund for Pakn Treger
The Joseph and Marion Brechner Fund for Jewish Cultural Reporting
The Charles Corfield Fund for Pakn Treger
The Mark Pinson Fund for Pakn Treger
Copyright in each translation is held by the translator. Copyright for “Immigration” is held by the Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Trust.
![Illustration from Shloyme Shvarts's "Amerike"](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/nybc202861_0003_2.jpg?itok=PoVYeaZ3)
Yiddish Comes to America: Introduction
![Josef Foshko's illustration for the poem](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/ollie%20to%20america.jpg?itok=AZ-iwk0d)
To America
![Los Emigrantes, by Rafael Barradas](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Los_emigrantes.jpg?itok=eXHHubkC)
Immigration
![](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/513px-Dentist_chair_art%2C_from-_El_Rodeo_%281908%29_%28147313%29_%28cropped%29_0.jpg?itok=Q2cYhWgc)
The First Patient
![Luna Park, Coney Island](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/800px-Luna_Park%2C_Surf_Avenue%2C_Coney_Island%2C_NY.jpg?itok=oDR5ymN0)
The First Trip to Coney Island
![Right to left: Joseph Opatoshu, Jonas Turkow, and Leo Forbert, 1928.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnail%20%281%29.jpeg?itok=V2_Wzd8X)
What Are We Teaching Our Children?
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If I Were in Alabama
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Letters
![Robinson Crusoe](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Avventure_di_Robinson_Crusoe_p174.jpg?itok=KEg1xSQQ)
The Immigrant Jewish Intellectual
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New Bosses
![A ship approaches Ellis Island.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/gottesfeld.jpg?itok=1TpPaD5I)
Hometown to Treyf Ground
![Orpheus, by Odilon Redon](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/lossy-page1-492px-Odilon_Redon_-_Orpheus_-_1926.25_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif_.jpg?itok=Jy37h68w)
Two Poems by Israel Emiot
![Over Brooklyn by Chaim Koppelman](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/dream%20-%20over%20brookly%20chaim%20koppelman.jpg?itok=uilb8vZm)
Dream
![A young woman reading a letter](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Neid_kirja_lugemas_-_A_young_woman_reading_a_letter_%2810341125665%29.jpg?itok=ZcjdnG9i)
You Should Have Been There
![Path of Gold, by Jonas Lie](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Jonas_Lie_-_Path_of_gold_%281914%29.jpg?itok=xIoHviBc)
Vrastata Trasmata!
![Josef Foshko's illustration for the poem](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnail%20%285%29.jpeg?itok=SscHcdpb)