"An Embodiment of the Old World": Translating Yiddish Poetry

Elena Sarashevskaya, editor of the Birobidzhaner Shtern, discusses translating Yiddish poetry from Birobidzhan, for example that of Emmanuil Genrikhovich Kazakevich, and questions the moral implications of translation.
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Irish Gaelic (Erse) has found a new life as a second language. Could the same happen with Yiddish?