Selected Published Translations

• “A Visit to the Wonderful Disneyland,” Forward

  Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and author of Night, wrote in Yiddish for the Forverts for many years, where he serialized the books that eventually became Dawn and Day. As a correspondent, he took a trip to the West, including Disneyland. I translated a 1957 article of his, documenting when he arrived at the Magic Kingdom, as archived digitally by the National Library of Israel, as part of a deeper study of Wiesel.

• “Video: 12-year-old chef bakes pretzels in Yiddish,” Forward

  Sender Glasser, a seventh grader in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and the son of Yiddish linguist and Forverts contributor Hershl Glasser and Polish-born Yiddishist Gosha Zaremba, put together a tutorial in Yiddish on how to make delicious, fluffy pretzels. I translated and subtitled the video.

• “Believe it or not, there’s a Yiddish guide to Palestinian Arabic,” Forward

  Forverts writer Yoel Matveyev learned about the Lithuanian Jewish adventurer Getzel Selikovitsch and his fascination Yiddish-language guide to Arabic spoken in early 20th-century Palestine. I translated his 2024 article on the subject, which played a role in a later article I wrote in English on Yiddish in Israel.