05. “The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization”

An illustrated ten-volume anthology of Jewish cultural and historical texts spanning more than 3,000 years. Yale University Press, 2012–2028.

I’m part of a huge team of translators working on this project. I have 17 translations in volume 5 (Early Modern Era, 1500–1750) and will have still more in volume 4 (Late Medieval Era, 1200–1500), which comes out in 2027. Since 2019, I’ve been the Posen Library’s main Ladino-to-English translator, and they’ve also hired me to translate medieval and early modern literary, religious, scientific, and historical documents from Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish. These are sizable books: volume 5, for instance, contains more than 1,300 pages.