אַ טרעפֿעניש - אן אָנהייבערס בלאָג

Do: zitsndik un trakhtndik kukt men aroys afn rakhves un di gasn fun der sheyner shtot. Far undz a griner shtotgortn. Bliyen di kleyne bleter af di beymer. Iber altz a bloyer himl - do un dort kleyne vayse volkns. Mentshn kumen un geyen in farbike kleder. Kinder geyen kop-in-ekran. Khag Peysakh kumt on - zman kherutenu.

Ikh ken nit farshteyn farvos men banuts af Yidish di vort 'kats' vi a termin fun libshaft. Mitn ankum fun friling, zenen alerley feygl gekumen af a bazukh in undzer gortn. Tsvishn zey di kleyne goldfinken, di beyze malinovkes, di zingndike amslen, un di groyse toybn. Oyb men meynt az alts iz sheyn inem hoyf, muz ikh zogn az di ale dozike vunderlekhe feygl tsiyen tsu tsum gortn di ale akhzariusdike ketz fun dem gantzn arumikn gegnt. Ikh hob nit lib di ketz - un nokh erger - ikh hob stark faynt di ketz bifrat ven zay kumen arayn in mayn gortn.

This is an extract from 'Vilna' by Moyshe Kulbak, a Jewish writer of Yiddish novels and poetry who lived and worked in Berlin, Vilna and Minsk.

Der taykh fun verter - der taykh af verter

Bay di taykhn...

במשך די אַנומלטיק פּאַנדעמיק האָב איך געזען אין אַן אויטאָבוס סטאַנציע אין ברײַטאָן אַ רעקלאַמע אויף ייִדיש

Ikh hob bashlosn tsu tsugebn fun tsayt tsu tsayt a transliteratsie fun der blog af latayn osies.