An English version, "Without Mazl" can be found in Voices from the Yiddish: Essays, Memoirs, Diaries. Ed. Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972. 326-328, originally published in 1940.
A related essay, American Mazl: Yiddish Poets in the New World by Jacqueline Osherow, from Western Humanities Review, Fall 2005, can be found online in Poetry Daily
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