Translations and Translators

Over here at the Jewish Book Council, we’re big fans of translations and translators. If you’re looking for a theme for your book club, this is a great one! See below for a few of our translated recommendations.

Cover of A Cat in the Ghetto

A Cat in the Ghetto

Rachmil Bryks; S. Morris Engel, trans.; Adam Rovner, fwd.

Cover of A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life

A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life

George Konrad; Jim Tucker, trans.; Michael Henry Heim, ed.

Cover of A Mad Desire to Dance

A Mad Desire to Dance

Elie Wiesel; Catherine Temerson, trans.

Cover of A Pigeon and a Boy

A Pigeon and a Boy

Evan Fallenberg, Meir Shalev

Cover of A Tale of Love and Darkness

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange, trans.

Cover of A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi

A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi

Primo Levi; Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli, trans.; Ann Goldstein, ed.

Cover of Autocorrect

Etgar Keret; Jessica Cohen and Sondra Silverston, trans.

Cover of Aftershocks: Stories

Aftershocks: Stories

Grete Weil; John S. Barrett, trans.

Cover of All Russians Love Birch Trees

All Russians Love Birch Trees

Olga Grjasnowa; Eva Bacon, trans.

Cover of Amerika: The Missing Person

Amerika: The Missing Person

Franz Kafka; Mark Harman, trans.

Cover of At Night's End

Nir Baram, Jessica Cohen

Cover of Berlin Atomized

Berlin Atomized

Julia Kornberg; Jack Rockwell, trans.

Cover of Café Shira

David Ehrlich; Michael Swirsky, trans. 

Cover of Deceit

Yuri Felsen; Bryan Karetnyk, trans.

Cover of Everyday Jews: Scenes From a Vanished Life

Everyday Jews: Scenes From a Vanished Life

Yehoshue Perle; Maier Deshell & Margaret Birstein, trans.; David G. Roskies, ed.

Cover of Farewell, Shanghai

Farewell, Shanghai

Angel Wagenstein; Deliana Simeonova and Elizabeth Frank, trans.

Cover of Fiasco

Imre Kertesz; Tim Wilkinson, trans.

Cover of Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems

Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems

Nelly Sachs, Joshua Weiner (Translator)

Cover of From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories

From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories

Fradl Shtok, Allison Schachter and Jordan D. Finkin (Translators)

Cover of God's Horse and The Atheist's School

God's Horse and The Atheist's School

Wilhelm Dichter; Madeline G. Levine, trans.

Cover of Happy New Years

Happy New Years

Maya Arad; Jessica Cohen, trans. 

Cover of Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories

Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories

Tadeusz Borowski, Madeline G. Levine (Translator)

Cover of HHhH

Laurent Binet; Sam Taylor, trans.

Cover of Hoffman's Hunger

Hoffman's Hunger

Leon De Winter; Arnold and Erica Pomerans, trans.

Cover of Homesick

Eshkol Nevo; Sondra Silverston, trans.

Cover of How To Love Your Daughter

How To Love Your Daughter

Hila Blum; Daniella Zamir, trans.

Cover of Hunting in America

Hunting in America

Tehila Hakimi; Joanna Chen, trans. 

Cover of Inheritance (Yerushe)

Inheritance (Yerushe)

Peretz Markish; Mary Schulman, trans.

Cover of Inside Information

Inside Information

Eshkol Nevo; Sondra Silverston, trans.

Cover of Killing the Second Dog

Killing the Second Dog

Marek Hlasko; Tomasz Mirkowicz, trans.

Cover of Life on Sandpaper

Life on Sandpaper

Yoram Kaniuk; Anthony Berris, trans.

Cover of Love Today

Maxim Biller; Anthea Bell, trans.

Cover of Mazaltob

Blanche Bendahan; Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino, trans. 

Cover of Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans. with notes and commentary

Cover of Misophonia

Dana Vowinckel; Adrian Nathan West, trans.

Cover of Ordinary Jews

Yehoshue Perle; Shirley Kumove, trans.

Cover of On Her Own

Lihi Lapid; Sondra Silverston, trans.

Cover of Operation Bethlehem: An Espionage Thriller

Operation Bethlehem: An Espionage Thriller

Yariv Inbar; Dalit Shmueli, trans.

Cover of Our Holocaust

Amir Gutfreund; Jessica Cohen, trans.

Cover of Panorama

H. G. Adler; Peter Filkins, trans.

Cover of Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman

Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman

Frederich Christian Delius; Jamie Bulloch, trans.

Cover of Radiant Days, Haunted Nights: Great Tales From the Treasury of Yiddish Folk Literature

Radiant Days, Haunted Nights: Great Tales From the Treasury of Yiddish Folk Literature

Joachim Neugroschel, ed. and trans.

Cover of Reveries of the Wild Woman: Primal Scenes

Reveries of the Wild Woman: Primal Scenes

Hélène Cixous; Beverley Bie Brahic, trans.

Cover of Salt

Adriana Riva; Denise Kripper, trans.

Cover of Sons and Daughters

Sons and Daughters

Chaim Grade; Rose Waldman, trans.

Cover of Soul House

Mireille Gansel; Joan Seliger Sidney, trans.

Cover of Suddenly, a Knock at the Door

Suddenly, a Knock at the Door

Etgar Keret; Nathan Englander, Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston, trans.

Cover of Suite Francaise

Suite Francaise

Irène Némirovsky; Sandra Smith, trans.

Cover of Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son

Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son

Sholem Aleichem; Aliza Shevrin, trans.; Dan Miron, intro.

Cover of The Blindness of the Heart

The Blindness of the Heart

Julia Franck; Anthea Bell, trans.

Cover of The Book of Fathers

The Book of Fathers

Miklós Vámos; Peter Sherwood, trans.

Cover of The Canvas

Benjamin Stein; Brian Zumhagen, trans.

Cover of The Centaur in the Garden

The Centaur in the Garden

Moacyr Scliar; Margaret A. Neves, trans.

Cover of The Circumcision

The Circumcision

Gyorgy Dalos; Judith Sallosy, trans.

Cover of The Confessions of Noa Weber

The Confessions of Noa Weber

Gail Hareven; Dalya Bilu, trans.

Cover of The Death of the Adversary

The Death of the Adversary

Hans Keilson; Ivo Jarosy, trans.

Cover of The Family Mashber

The Family Mashber

Der Nister; Leonard Wolf, trans.; David Malouf, intro.

Cover of The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague

The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague

Yudl Rosenberg; Curt Leviant , trans. & ed.

Cover of The Hebrew Teacher

The Hebrew Teacher

Maya Arad; Jessica Cohen, trans. 

Cover of The Last Brother

The Last Brother

Nathacha Appanah; Geoffrey Strachan, trans.

Cover of The Lady of the Mine

The Lady of the Mine

Sergei Lebedev; Antonina W. Bouis, trans.

Cover of The Morning Star

The Morning Star

André Schwarz-Bart; Julie Rose, trans.

Cover of The Oppermanns

Lion Feuchtwanger; James Cleugh, trans; Joshua Cohen, translation and introduction

Cover of The Salt Line

Youval Shimoni; Michael Sharp, trans;

Cover of Three Musketeers

Three Musketeers

Marcelo Birmajer; Sharon Woods, trans.

Cover of Three Plays: Dark River, Arthur Aronymus and His Ancestors, and I and I

Three Plays: Dark River, Arthur Aronymus and His Ancestors, and I and I

Else Lasker-Schüler; Jane Curtis, trans.; Inca Molina Rumold, ed.

Cover of To the End of the Land

To the End of the Land

David Grossman, Jessica Cohen

Cover of To This Day

S.Y. Agnon; Hillel Halkin, trans.

Cover of With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection

With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection

Hilde Domin; Sarah Kafatou, trans.

Cover of Where I Am

Dana Shem-Ur; Yardenne Greenspan, trans.

Cover of Victorious

Yishai Sarid; trans, Yardenne Greenspan

Cover of 18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages

18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages