Robinson, Leye
1955-
A poet, translator, and prose author, she was born in England. She studied at Cambridge and Columbia Universities.
She debuted in print with a story in the columns of the London journal
Loshn un Lebn (Language and Life) in 1979.
She has published prose and poetry in
Di Goldene Pave (The Golden Peacock),
Yugntruf (Call to Youth),
Naye Vegn (New Pathways),
Forverts (Forward),
Yidishand (Yiddishland),
and elsewhere.
She contributed to:
the bilingual (Yiddish and English) anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry, Trot bay Trot (Step by Step) (Macerata: Verbarium/Quodlibet, 2009), 233 pp.; and
the anthology of Yiddish poems from the post-Holocaust generation, Ring (Link) (Tel Aviv, 2017).
She edited for a certain amount of time the journal
Yugntruf.
Together with Shmoyl Naydorf, she translated into Yiddish:
Heinrich Hoffmann’s Der Struwwelpeter (Shock-Headed Peter) as Pinye Shtroykop oder Vitsike Mayses un Komishe Bilder (Pinye the Strawhead, or Witty Stories with Comic Pictures) (Neckarsteinach: Edition Tintenfaß, 2023), 34 pp.;
Wilhelm Busch’s Max und Moritz as Shmul un Shmerke, a Mayse Mit Vayse-Khevredike in Zibn Shpitslekh (Shmul and Shmerke, a Story with Scamps in Seven Tricks) (Nidderau: M. Naumann, 2000), 66 pp.;
George Orwell’s Animal Farm as Der Khayes-Folvalk (Nidderau: M. Naumann, 2001), 93 pp.; and
Bertolt Brecht’s Die 3 Groschen Oper (The Three-Penny Opera) as Di Drayer Opere (Nidderau: M. Naumann, 2002), 90 pp.
She lives in New York (2026).