Corbin Allardice
װאַלט װהיטמאַן | Walt Whitman ערדקוגל, מײַן אייגענע געשטאַלט
ערדקוגל, מײַן אײגענע געשטאַלט פֿון װאַלט װהיטמאַן יידיש פֿון קרבן־פּסח ערדקוגל, מײַן אײגענע געשטאַלט, כאָטש איר זעט דאָרט אױס אַזױ...
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Corbin Allardice
- Jan 22
- 1 min
מיר האָבן געלעבט פֿריילעך בשעת דער מלחמה – איליאַ קאַמינסקי
מיר האָבן געלעבט פֿריילעך בשעת דער מלחמה איליאַ קאַמינסקי טײַטש: קרבן־פּסח און װען זיי האָבן באָמבירט הײַזער ניט אייגענע, מיר האָבן...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 20
- 2 min
מאַיאַקאָװסקי ־ פֿרענק אָ'האַראַ (פֿאַרטײַטשט און פֿאַרערגערט)
מאַיאַקאָװסקי פון פרענק אָ'האַראַ טײטש: קרבן־פּסח א דאָס האַרץ עס ציטערט! איך שטיי דאָ אין װאַנע װיינען. מאַמע, מאַמע װער בין איך? אז ער...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 4
- 1 min
פֿאַרבעסערן ס'דײַטש פֿון לידיע דעיװיס
Farbesern s'daytsh
Yiddish translation of "Improving my German" by Lydia Davis
Corbin Allardice
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Hipsters - Moyshe Nadir
hipsters* they sit in pairs and throuples. and chatter, chatter, chatter. sadness sits between them. and looks them in the eye. they sit...
Corbin Allardice
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Ingathering of Miseries - Moyshe Nadir
Homeless pains wandered through me, unable to find the place where they belong. Miseries without a fatherland or home. They dragged...
Corbin Allardice
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Canine Love - Moyshe Nadir
That which I endeavor to tell here is barely suitable to be printed. We went for a stroll, my hound and I. He is so faithful and thinks...
Corbin Allardice
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Still, Life - Moyshe Nadir
“In life,” a jug has a handle. So that you can hold it when you go draw water. But in the image, on the painted jug, you don’t need a...
Corbin Allardice
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
The Landlord of Dirt - Moyshe Nadir
Should I take strange worms and offer them the apples on my apple tree to eat? Of course not. Should I allow them to build a nest in my...
Corbin Allardice
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
For Example - Moyshe Nadir
For example. What if a person stood in one spot, growing into the earth like a tree, and milling about with the fields of rye and wheat,...
Corbin Allardice
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
On Speaking - Moyshe Nadir
The point is not the word, but where it is spoken. When I say a word on the mountaintop that I have said in the valley, it is not the...
Corbin Allardice
- Oct 31, 2022
- 1 min
Thus Spake an Artist, a Greenwich Villager - Moyshe Nadir
Thus Spake an Artist, a Greenwich Villager I have. I have in my home. I have in my home an old violin which cannot be played for it has...
Corbin Allardice
- May 12, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Moyshe Zilburg
Moyshe Zilburg (Zilberg; Moshe Silburg) Born 1884 in Molodetshne (Maladzyechna). Lemberg (Lviv) in 1910, following a period in a Tsarist...
Corbin Allardice
- May 11, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Avrom (Avraham) Zak
Avrom Zak Born 1891 in a shtetl near Grodne (Grodno). 1914-1918, soldier in the [First] World War. Warsaw. 1939, fled into deep Russia....
Corbin Allardice
- May 10, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Itshe Meyer Vaysenberg (Isaac Meier Weissenberg)
Itshe Meyer Vaysenberg Born 1881 in Zhelekhov (Żelechów). In Warsaw since 1904. Short trip to America. Died in late 1938. For thirty-four...
Corbin Allardice
- May 9, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Oyzer Varshavski
Oyzer Varshavski (Ozer, Oser Warszawski) Born 1898 in a shtetl near Warsaw. Spent WWI and later years in Warsaw. From 1923 on, in Western...
Corbin Allardice
- May 8, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Hershele (Herszele)
Hershele Hersh Danilevitsh (Danilewicz), born in Lipne (Lipno) in 1882. Traveled to Geneva (Genf) in 1908. Lived near Warsaw. Died in the...
Corbin Allardice
- May 5, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Kalmen Khayim Heysherik
Kalmen Khayim Heysherik (Kalmen Chaim Hajszryk) Born around 1890 in Turek, Poland, served in the Russian and Polish armies during the...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 23, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Falk Heylperin (Halperin)
Falk Heylperin (Halperin) Born 1876 in Nesvizh (Nyasvizh)--lived in various cities in the former Russian empire. Settled in Vilne in 1921...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 20, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Menachem Mendl Hurvits
Menachem Mendl Hurvits Born 1881 in Libavitsh (Lyubavitchi), Mogilev Gubernya, Belorus [now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia]. Spent almost his...
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