2015 Pakn Treger Translation Issue Quotes

“akin to kissing one’s beloved through a veil. The general shape of the bride’s face may be visible, but the texture of her lips is concealed. A normally pleasant and intimate experience is obscured, ruined by a meddling intermediary.”
― Yiddish Book Center, 2015 Pakn Treger Translation Issue: An Anthology of Newly Translated Yiddish Works

“The great Hebrew and Yiddish poet Chaim Nacham Bialik reportedly once said that reading literature in translation is”
― Yiddish Book Center, 2015 Pakn Treger Translation Issue: An Anthology of Newly Translated Yiddish Works