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, 20231 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20231 min read
פֿאַרבעסערן ס'דײַטש פֿון לידיע דעיװיס
Farbesern s'daytsh
Yiddish translation of "Improving my German" by Lydia Davis
Corbin Allardice
Nov 2, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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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