I so much liked your perfect Little Psalms, some of them so much in the spirit (and often the language-of-feeling) of Yiddish poetry. You've created a fine amalgam of the American tongue and its sensibilities, and your new/old yeshiva explorations.
—Cynthia Ozick, winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award, 2008.
Yaacov David Shulman is a master translator who is able to capture the language, the poetry and the beauty of Rav Kook’s Hebrew, which is often very difficult to read in the original, even by people who are very literate in Hebrew.
—Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, president emeritus of the Orthodox Union (OU).
Hello! My name is Yaacov David Shulman, and I'm a creative writer, translator and editor.
Dot-Letter-Word is my opportunity to share with you:
My Writing: mostly poetry.
My Translating: great spiritual Jewish texts by Rav Kook, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the Piaseszner Rebbe, and others.
Bonus: occasional songs.
Click here to join the mailing list and get the latest updates or to hire me to edit or translate your work..
—Cynthia Ozick, winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award, 2008.
Yaacov David Shulman is a master translator who is able to capture the language, the poetry and the beauty of Rav Kook’s Hebrew, which is often very difficult to read in the original, even by people who are very literate in Hebrew.
—Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, president emeritus of the Orthodox Union (OU).
Hello! My name is Yaacov David Shulman, and I'm a creative writer, translator and editor.
Dot-Letter-Word is my opportunity to share with you:
My Writing: mostly poetry.
My Translating: great spiritual Jewish texts by Rav Kook, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the Piaseszner Rebbe, and others.
Bonus: occasional songs.
Click here to join the mailing list and get the latest updates or to hire me to edit or translate your work..
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New Poems, Stories, Songs
July 22, 2016 My Dear Friend, I Do Not Write These Words July 4, 2016 You Call the Enemy to the Gate June 13, 2016 A Song about a Skulking Bird: Aquarius (go to bottom of page) June 5, 2016 A Stroll through Jerusalem June 3, 2016 You are a Cloud, a Fuzzy Swarm May 31, 2016 ...The Women White Were Wearing May 23, 2016 Bear, Dreaming of Old Age May 20, 2016 "Why Do I"--Aye Aye Aiie-- The Bridge: A Short Story (can you be religious and creative?) May 19, 2016 The River Barreled Topsidedown May 17, 2016 The Marvelous Revival of Rabbi Barton: A Short Story May 14, 2016 Never Stay in Forests Nor Love the Hind There Are Ships that Are Lustful The Houses Huddle upon the Onyar River I Put Off Living Because May 13, 2016 Thought Is Kind The Orb Described a Curve The Mouth of the Lion Lies to My East Has Any Mind Imprisoned You? April 14, 2016 South of Chios Spearhead Island April 7, 2016 The Name of the District Even that which Is Creatures of the Moon Loud-Roaring, Wine-Colored Sea March 23, 2016 (Purim) The Story of the Third Little Piggy March 10, 2016 I Found Myself Out- Poetry Is, Please Being Hated Has There Are So Many Heads The Meadow Flowers Flow in the Breeze Between Today and Tomorrow, My February 10, 2016 "Arrow..." in which I take "An Arrow that Shoots" and transform it into a poem with an A-A-A rhyme scheme, in which the rhyme appears in the first, middle and last word of each three line stanza (each time in a different order). February 9, 2016 "An Arrow that Shoots"--where I take "There in the Heavens," based on a Pablo Neruda poem, and transform it into a series of "choka" poems. February 7, 2016 "There in the Heavens," a poem whose body was robbed from Pablo Neruda February 3, 2016: A few "choka" poems and two "sedoka" poems (both Japanese forms). January 31, 2016: A few poems in the Japanese "tanka" style: lines with syllable counts of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7. January 30, 2016: A few poems experimenting with alliteration, assonance and rhyme schemes. |
New Translations
July 15, 2016 Likutei Moharan Hamevuar: Teaching 3, Complete! June 5, 2016 Likutei Moharan Hamevuar: Teaching 2, Complete!--Rabbi Nachman's Magnum Opus, with commentary by Rabbi Yehoshua Gross May 14, 2016 by Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook: The Wonderful Tzaddikim From the Comprehensive Light All Descriptions of Life The Intelligent Eye Every Authentic Creation The Big Truth Even When the Body is Broken and Crushed Literature and Prophecy The Creative Soul March 18, 2016 Prologue to Likutei Moharan, with the commentary of Likutei Moharan Hamevuar. March 10, 2016 Rabbi Nachman's Pleasant Song, which appears at the beginning of Likutei Moharan February 22, 2016 Profound Creativity, by Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook February 13, 2016 Three translations of Yiddish poems: Ballad of the Ragged Man and the Crucified by Itzik Manger Treblinka Candidate by H. Leivick Autumn by Itzik Manger February 5, 2016: Fifty years after the passing of Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv, author of the Kabbalistic classic, Lechem Shevo Ve'achlamah, a brief biography and appreciation by Rabbi S. Deblitzki. (Notice that sadly, because of prejudice in certain quarters, he avoided citing Rabbi Elyashiv's colleague, Rav Kook, by name and only referred to him as "one of the great leaders and tzaddikim of the generation.") January 30, 2016: Rabbi Aryeh Levin ("A Tzaddik in Our Time") wrote a brief biography of his father-in-law, Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv, author of the Kabbalistic classic, Lechem Shevo Ve'achlamah. It appears here for the first time in English. |
