Mordecai Martin
@mordecaimartin.net
He/him. Writer. איבערטייטשער. Fifth generation New Yorker. Mad man and Psychiatric Survivor. Hairy AND over-share-y. MFA from Randolph College. http://www.MordecaiMartin.net. https://fartaytshtundfarbesert.substack.com/
A friend in Gaza needs urgent financial assistance. I am offering some rewards for sending money to my Venmo @mo-martin-1. Receipts will be available. Rewards are in the picture (with alt text):
November 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A friend in Gaza needs urgent financial assistance. I am offering some rewards for sending money to my Venmo @mo-martin-1. Receipts will be available. Rewards are in the picture (with alt text):
I am trying to raise 200 US dollars for an elderly Palestinian woman in Cairo to afford a wheelchair. Venmo me @Mo-Martin-1 and I’ll pass the money on. Venmo me an amount of 25 dollars or more and I’ll translate this poem by Sholem Shvartsbard for you!
October 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I am trying to raise 200 US dollars for an elderly Palestinian woman in Cairo to afford a wheelchair. Venmo me @Mo-Martin-1 and I’ll pass the money on. Venmo me an amount of 25 dollars or more and I’ll translate this poem by Sholem Shvartsbard for you!
My coworking space got the memo about spoopy season, considered the propositions therein seriously, and made action items
October 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My coworking space got the memo about spoopy season, considered the propositions therein seriously, and made action items
Alina, it wouldn’t fit
October 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Alina, it wouldn’t fit
This what I mean when I talk about art collectives as the future
September 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This what I mean when I talk about art collectives as the future
I took this picture of these small purple flowers on my street yesterday. Their lives of beauty, constricted by concrete and wire, reminds me of the beautiful souls of Gaza, denied food and medicine and safety, yet still they bloom. Please consider donating to help www.gofundme.com/f/help-karam...
August 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I took this picture of these small purple flowers on my street yesterday. Their lives of beauty, constricted by concrete and wire, reminds me of the beautiful souls of Gaza, denied food and medicine and safety, yet still they bloom. Please consider donating to help www.gofundme.com/f/help-karam...
I don’t know if the same sinister lessons can be drawn out of Lucha Libre here in Mexico, where I’ve immigrated. In reading this book, I feel I am being given a key to something gentler and more beautiful about the national culture than just how politicians twist the truth.
August 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I don’t know if the same sinister lessons can be drawn out of Lucha Libre here in Mexico, where I’ve immigrated. In reading this book, I feel I am being given a key to something gentler and more beautiful about the national culture than just how politicians twist the truth.
I’m enjoying the challenge of doing street photography while attempting not to capture people without their permission or knowledge
April 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I’m enjoying the challenge of doing street photography while attempting not to capture people without their permission or knowledge
Going to try and make a routine of these walks. Really delightful to just see the world through the camera. Here’s some of my favorite compositions. Did a lot of thinking about frames.
April 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Going to try and make a routine of these walks. Really delightful to just see the world through the camera. Here’s some of my favorite compositions. Did a lot of thinking about frames.
First steps. The flowers in the tree outside my window. Nikon D5600. Honestly, just grateful to take a pic not on my phone. Not unpleased with these.
April 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
First steps. The flowers in the tree outside my window. Nikon D5600. Honestly, just grateful to take a pic not on my phone. Not unpleased with these.
Some highlights of the collection
April 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Some highlights of the collection
Excited to read with this amazing roster to support @translifeline.bsky.social and @translatinacoalition.org ! Contact me for registration info!
March 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Excited to read with this amazing roster to support @translifeline.bsky.social and @translatinacoalition.org ! Contact me for registration info!
I think I'm prepared to be insufferable about this. YOU SHOULD COME
February 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I think I'm prepared to be insufferable about this. YOU SHOULD COME
This is an illustration of a little pro-labor Yiddish novella I’m translating. It depicts a sweatshop owner who crossed a picket line to eat some noodles getting the shit beat out of him by the striking dishwasher. Get fucked, Mr. Getzlberg!
February 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This is an illustration of a little pro-labor Yiddish novella I’m translating. It depicts a sweatshop owner who crossed a picket line to eat some noodles getting the shit beat out of him by the striking dishwasher. Get fucked, Mr. Getzlberg!
Passed this bougainvillea on the way to the park to do something for myself. Felt encouraged. Don’t give up, okay? This bougainvillea wouldn’t
February 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Passed this bougainvillea on the way to the park to do something for myself. Felt encouraged. Don’t give up, okay? This bougainvillea wouldn’t
The story this cartoon illustrates is ready for submission! Who's taking translated weird little Yiddish finds?
January 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The story this cartoon illustrates is ready for submission! Who's taking translated weird little Yiddish finds?
I’m reentering the world after a restorative week of celebrating myself and my community of writers at Randolph College, where I graduated with an MFA. Hard to hold all the private joy and public pain at once.
January 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I’m reentering the world after a restorative week of celebrating myself and my community of writers at Randolph College, where I graduated with an MFA. Hard to hold all the private joy and public pain at once.
For your viewing pleasure, I present: my cat in a little high chair meant for my son
December 14, 2024 at 2:26 PM
For your viewing pleasure, I present: my cat in a little high chair meant for my son
Did you think I was playing? Did you think this was A GAME?! I will ABSOLUTELY self promote on this account, and you can’t stop me
November 23, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Did you think I was playing? Did you think this was A GAME?! I will ABSOLUTELY self promote on this account, and you can’t stop me
Your account in one image
November 18, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Your account in one image
We are getting perilously close, not to the end of my bookshelf, but to the end of pictures I have on my phone from when I packed my books to ship to Mexico. You guys cool with me using pics I find online to continue?
I relate a lot to White’s Lancelot, a man driven by doubt in himself to be kind
I relate a lot to White’s Lancelot, a man driven by doubt in himself to be kind
November 12, 2024 at 6:46 PM
We are getting perilously close, not to the end of my bookshelf, but to the end of pictures I have on my phone from when I packed my books to ship to Mexico. You guys cool with me using pics I find online to continue?
I relate a lot to White’s Lancelot, a man driven by doubt in himself to be kind
I relate a lot to White’s Lancelot, a man driven by doubt in himself to be kind
My favorite stories in this book are the Angel Levine, an incredible vision of how race in the US context and Jewishness overlap and interact, and Ecco La Clave, which ends in a bonkers and hilarious confrontation that I will never forget. My first Malamud and my favorite.
November 12, 2024 at 5:10 PM
My favorite stories in this book are the Angel Levine, an incredible vision of how race in the US context and Jewishness overlap and interact, and Ecco La Clave, which ends in a bonkers and hilarious confrontation that I will never forget. My first Malamud and my favorite.
This is how I came to Lamed Shapiro, through his shocking and brutal stories of pogrom violence and its aftermaths. I’m still translating his reflections on writing, Der Shrayber Geyt in Heder. You can read some of my progress and reflections on that here www.essaydaily.org/2023/01/mord...
November 12, 2024 at 4:36 PM
This is how I came to Lamed Shapiro, through his shocking and brutal stories of pogrom violence and its aftermaths. I’m still translating his reflections on writing, Der Shrayber Geyt in Heder. You can read some of my progress and reflections on that here www.essaydaily.org/2023/01/mord...
When I found out that the great Czech National novel is actually a work of anarchist satire, it increased my desire to spend time in Prague about 20 fold. Catch 22 before Joseph Heller was knee high to a grasshopper. No one satirizes military madness quite like Hašek, and his guileless hero Švejk
November 12, 2024 at 4:31 PM
When I found out that the great Czech National novel is actually a work of anarchist satire, it increased my desire to spend time in Prague about 20 fold. Catch 22 before Joseph Heller was knee high to a grasshopper. No one satirizes military madness quite like Hašek, and his guileless hero Švejk