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Zackary Sholem Berger is a poet, journalist, and translator in Yiddish and English. He is probably best known, in the small world of modern-minded Yiddish speakers, as the translator of Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat into Yiddish - Di Kats der Payats, published by Yiddish House LLC, a media titan founded by him and his wife, Celeste Sollod. In addition to the Cat, they have also published translations of One Fish Two Fish and Curious George.

His first book of poetry, a chapbook of Yiddish and English poems entitled Not in the Same Breath, was just published by Yiddish House.

He has published widely in both Yiddish and English, in journals such as Gilgulim, Lyric, the Forward, and Tablet.

He lives in Baltimore with his wife and children – they...more


Medicine is always uncertain because evidence is always incomplete. The bridge between this incompleteness and the decisions that must be made is the preference of the patient in discussion with their physician. No insightful care can make believe this bridge doesn’t exist, that evidence is somehow complete and easily applied without the thoughts and wishes of the patient and physician themselv...

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Published on May 30, 2012 06:33
Average rating: 4.38 · 16 ratings · 9 reviews · 1 distinct work
Not in the Same Breath זאָג...
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Far District by Ishion Hutchinson
Far District: Poems
by Ishion Hutchinson
read in January, 2012
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A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People by Gabe Foreman
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date: January 29, 2012 01:30PM
location: Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, 3301 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx, NY, The United States
description: Zackary Sholem Berger reads poetry at the kind invitation of the active, venerable, and lively Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center. He will read from his chapbook Not in the Same Breath and provide a special preview of his long manuscript-in-progress, a rickety wagon hitched uncertainly - and without any safety rating - to the Pentateuch.

פֿרום און פֿרעך, אַלט און נײַ: פּאָעטישע סחורה פֿון שלום בערגער

דער פּאָעט װעט לײענען פֿון זײַן הײַיאָריקן ספֿרל "זאָג כאָטש להבֿדיל", װי אױך, צום ערשטן מאָל פֿאַר א...more

"It's difficult, yes, but there are plenty of relationships in which there are power gradients (in some realms) but also, at the same time, a peer-to-p...more "
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Being Numerous by Oren Izenberg
Being Numerous
by Oren Izenberg
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
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Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
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Us by Michael Kimball
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Dear Everybody by Michael Kimball
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47861 Q&A with Zackary Sholem Berger — 6 members — last activity May 23, 2012 05:24pm
How often do you get to ask questions of a Yiddish poet - who happens not to be dead yet (tfu tfu tfu)?
34560 Jewish Book Carnival — 142 members — last activity 8 hours, 22 min ago
This is the GoodReads group for the Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly forum for sharing links and information on Jewish books and the blogs that cover t...more
233 ¡ POETRY ! — 7246 members — last activity 3 hours, 51 min ago
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it...more
7658 Languages & Translation — 54 members — last activity Mar 07, 2012 04:15am
Meeting place for translators and other language professionals to recommend books (reference, theory, etc.) and talk about our profession.
35402 Loosed in Translation — 131 members — last activity May 31, 2012 12:42pm
Are you interested in world literature, and works in translation? Come here for recommendations, resources, links, advice on who the best translator o...more
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