Other Published Works

"A Wife Pawned and Sold" by Jacob Gordin

This short story, published at the turn of the century, gives an unexpected twist to the Jewish immigration experience during the "Great Migration." My English translation of this story, published in September 2021, can be found on JewishFiction.net. 

Eleven of my literary Yiddish translations have appeared in Smith College’s academic translation journal Metamorphoses:

Spring 2020 (28.1)

Hersh Smoliar, Translated from the Yiddish by Ruth Murphy and edited by Catherine Madsen

• A Good Morning, page 153

• At The Edge, page 155

• Enemies, page 157

• A Night in the Forest, page 162

• The Verdict, page 164

Fall 2019 (27.2)

Salomea Perl, Translated from the Yiddish by Ruth Murphy

• The Canvas, page 144

• The Theater, page 147

• Khaykl Latnik (A Sketch), page 155

• Potki with the Eyebrows, page 159

• Childless, page 171

• Seeking Bread, page 180

• Tsipke, page 188

Appearing on the Yiddish Book Center website

"Tsipke" 

By Salomea Perl, translated by Ruth Murphy

"Reb Yudl Shloboner" or "The Beautiful Minke" 

By Ayzik Meyer Dik, translated by Ruth Murphy 

“An Open Letter” and “An Answer to Mr. Lilienblum” 

Written by: Moyshe Leyb Lilienblum and Avrom Kunin

Translated by: Ruth Murphy

Published: Spring 2019 

Part of issue number: Translation 2019 

From My Childhood

Written by: Rokhl Feygenberg

Translated by: Ruth Murphy

Published: Summer 2022 / 5782 

Part of issue number: Translation 2022