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2021 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue
Published: Summer 2021
The 2021 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue is available to read on our site (all pieces are linked below) and will be available for download as an e-book. Links will be added here when they are available.
Madeleine Cohen Translation Editor
Lisa Newman Executive Editor
Abigail Weaver Translation Editor
Lesley Yalen Managing Editor
Greg Lauzon Copy Editor
Alexander Isley Inc. Art Direction and Design
Cover by Matt Foster
Support for Pakn Treger comes from:
The Joseph and Marion Brechner Fund for Jewish Cultural Reporting
The Charles Corfield Fund for Pakn Treger
The Kaplen Fund for Pakn Treger
The Mark Pinson Fund for Pakn Treger
Copyright in each translation is held by the translator. Copyright for the excerpt from My Childhood Years is held by Jessica Hirshbein.
“Spring in Whitechapel” by A. M. Kaizer, translated from the Yiddish by Vivi Lachs, first appeared in the 2021 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue and is also forthcoming in the collection London Yiddishtown: East-End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930–1950 (Wayne State University Press). The work is a result of Vivi Lachs' Yiddish Book Center translation fellowship.
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Yiddish in Nature: Introduction
![Landscape with Travelers on a Woodland Path, ca. 1607, Jan Brueghel the Elder.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-08%20at%2011.23.32%20AM.png?itok=FujRHP_b)
From the introduction to Collected Works
![Sahurs Meadows in Morning Sun, 1894, Alfred Sisley](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-08%20at%2011.36.17%20AM.png?itok=Kt3kKRXU)
Summer Awakening
![A Storm off the Normandy Coast, probably 1850s, Eugène Isabey](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-08%20at%2011.50.07%20AM.png?itok=Zemen2Gd)
Prehistoric Landscapes
![Sunrise on the Matterhorn, after 1875, Albert Bierstadt](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-08%20at%2012.18.27%20PM.png?itok=QntzaMZp)
Chatyr-Dag [1–3]
![Rainstorm—Cider Mill at Redding, Connecticut, ca. 1840, George Harvey](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-08%20at%2012.35.28%20PM.png?itok=pFDPqGAn)
Covered by Cobwebs
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The Fool and the Forest Spirit
![A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove), 1862, Sanford Robinson Gifford](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-08%20at%201.04.52%20PM.png?itok=ztCX_6_7)
With Golden Steps over Earth
![A Fir Tree in the Forest of the Landes, Aquitane 1909, René-Ernest Huet.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-10%20at%2010.10.33%20AM.png?itok=lA3ICOAO)
In a Forest of Fir
![Evening in the Woods, 1876, Worthington Whittredge](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-10%20at%2011.29.14%20AM.png?itok=PR_cc4U1)
Baal Shem
![The Aegean Sea, ca. 1877, Frederic Edwin Church](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-10%20at%2011.40.41%20AM.png?itok=rnRzUTVE)
Memory of Three Lake Victoria Flamingos
![Winter Scene in Moonlight, 1869, Henry Farrer](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-10%20at%2011.55.33%20AM.png?itok=kcGJK8tK)
A Winter in the Shtetl
![Owl Mocked by Small Birds, ca. 1887, Kawanabe Kyōsai](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-10%20at%2012.15.17%20PM.png?itok=b9jF6mJr)
The Owl
![Rue de l'Épicerie, Rouen (Effect of Sunlight), 1898, Camille Pissarro](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-10%20at%2012.33.21%20PM.png?itok=bIx-_FWd)
Spring in Whitechapel
![Newport Rocks, 1872, John Frederick Kensett](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-10%20at%201.33.31%20PM.png?itok=WuynLDCP)
"Stay" and "Hail"
![Titmouse with Pomegranate Flowers, mid-16th century, Kano Yukinobu](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-10%20at%201.52.05%20PM.png?itok=doR1bi2_)
"The Bird and I" and "Yes, the Yonder"
![The Hamlet of Optevoz, ca. 1852, Charles-François Daubigny](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-10%20at%202.12.43%20PM.png?itok=1SLG95g-)
From My Childhood Years
![Sunset, 1872, John Frederick Kensett](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-10%20at%202.21.02%20PM.png?itok=fSiNidR6)
Dawning in Every One of My Limbs
![Sunset after a Storm on the Coast of Sicily, 1853, Andreas Achenbach](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-10%20at%202.30.06%20PM.png?itok=PRwRNWuH)