Translation & Editing

Rosamond is available for translations from Yiddish, Russian, French, Dutch, and Italian and into English and Dutch.

Recent projects include:

• “Poems of Shoria,” a poetry collection about the indigenous Siberian Shor people by Shor activist Yana Tannagasheva (Russian to English) // ADC Memorial
• “And the Germans Never Came,” an academic study of a Belgian psychiatric hospital under Nazi occupation (Dutch to English) // Private commission
• “Until the Next Uprising,” selected feuilletons by Jacob Israël de Haan (Dutch to English), for the Berlin Center for Intellecutual Disapora’s international conference Queerodox: Jacob Israel de Haan (100 Years to his Assassination) // Blima Books (Jerusalem-Berlin)
• “Anthropology & Photography: An Introduction” (French to English) // Civilisations: Revue internationale d’anthropologie et de sciences humaines (co-translation)

Writing & Speaking

Article on Yiddish in Berlin (writer) // Forverts

Parataxe Symposium XIV on Berlin’s contemporary Hebrew and Yiddish authors (panelist on “Goles, Doikayt and Diaspora — Yiddish in Berlin”) // Kulturbrauerei, Berlin

Traditional and Contemporary Yiddish Song in Translation (lecture) // Freie Universität Berlin

“900 Years of Jewish Culture in Thuringia — Let’s Talk!” (panelist with Dr. Alan Bern, Dr. Diana Matut, and Cantor Jalda Rebling at UNESCO World Heritage celebration) // Alte Synagoge, Erfurt

“Yiddish & Berlin: A Complex yet Fruitful Relationship?,” article by Ann-Christin Klotz on Berlin conference // In Geveb

“Van Wingerden introduced the concept of a ‘double diaspora’ for modern Yiddish writers and cultural activists. She compared her experience to that of earlier writers in the Weimar Republic, who also grappled with the complexities of writing in a non-primary language. This ‘double diaspora’ refers to both the physical and cultural dislocations faced by contemporary Yiddish writers.”