CFY presents our annual virtual Yiddish Holocaust Education Lecture for 2026
with CIYCL Director MIRI KORAL
The Song Remains: New Translations of Yiddish Holocaust Poetry
Sunday, November 1, 2:00 pm ET
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Join CIYCL Director Miri Koral in exploring a unique ongoing translation project -- a portal into a world of Yiddish poetry. The Song Remains/Dos Lid iz Geblibn/דאָס ליד איז געבליבן is designed to bring to a wider public English translations of a post-WW II anthology of 160 lovingly curated works of 36 diverse masters of Yiddish verse. The poet and survivor Binem Heller compiled the anthology in 1951 to ensure that the works of these marvelous poets are not forgotten even though their lives were cut short by the Holocaust.
In advance of this program, you can sign up for free at TheSongRemains.org and receive the latest newly translated poem in your inbox every week!
Here are some recent favorites:
Chaim Semiatitski
Lovesongs by Shmuel Zaromb
Poems by Yakov Shudrickh
Miri Koral is the Editor of The Song Remains.
Miri teaches Yiddish language, film and literature-in-translation at UCLA and is the Founding Director of the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language (CIYCL). She also translates Yiddish prose and poetry into English. In addition to two translated books, the biography by Shmuel Rozhanski, Jacob Dinezon: The Mother Among Our Classic Yiddish Writers, and In the Realm of Time – Selected Poetry of Chaim Keninger, her translations have been published in the journals PaknTreger, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and the Melbourne Chronicle, and in numerous online platforms such as Yiddishpoetry.org, JewishFiction.net, and Recovering Yiddish Los Angeles – UCLA Digital Anthology of Yiddish Literature. Her original poetry and prose in Yiddish has appeared in the journals Kheshbn, Tsukunft, Undzer Tsayt, and in the 2009 Step by Step: Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry. Under CIYCL’s banner she launched the first of its kind International Yiddish Poetry Translation Contest.
This program is co-presented with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language, and the Toronto Workmen's Circle Foundation.
