From Irish into Yiddish

On the Celtic festival Samhain, November 1, 2023, the Russian-Yiddish newspaper Birobidzhaner Shtern published a selection of poems translated from the Irish language (Gaelic) into Yiddish by the poet and writer Yoel Matveyev who currently lives in St. Petersburg.

The publication includes several works by 17th-21st century poets, as well as an ancient anonymous poem, presumably dating back to the 9th century, about a cat named Pangur. The translations are accompanied by an introductory article in Yiddish and Russian. As far as we know, this is the first literary experiment in history that directly connects Yiddish and Irish.