Jewish Translation - Translating Jewishness

Magdalena Waligórska, Tara Kohn, Magdalena Waligórska, Tara Kohn

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9783110550191
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Jewish Literary Criticism

This interdisciplinary volume looks at one of the central cultural practices within the Jewish experience: translation. With contributions from literary and cultural scholars, historians, and scholars of religion, the book considers different aspects of Jewish translation, starting from the early translations of the Torah, to the modern Jewish experience of migration, state-building and life in the Diaspora.

The volume addresses the question of how Jews have used translation to pursue different cultural and political agendas, such as Jewish nationalism, the development of Yiddish as a literary language, and the collection of Holocaust testimonies. It also addresses how non-Jews have translated elements of the Judaic tradition to create an image of the Other.

Covering a wide span of contexts, including religion, literature, photography, music and folk practices, and featuring an interview section with authors and translators, the volume will be of interest not only to scholars of Jewish studies, translation and cultural studies, but also a wider interested audience.

Index

• ʿAbbāsī, Maḥmūd, 1
• ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ, Nāzik, 1
• Abramovitch, Raphael, 1, 2
• Abramovitsh, Sholem-Yankev (Mendele Moykher-Sforim), 1, 2
• Agamben, Giorgio, 1
• Aggasi, Eliyahu, 1
• Aharon, Zakkay, 1
• al-Baḥrāwī, Ibrāhīm, 1
• al-Dāwūdī, Salīm, 1
• aliyah, see also migration 1, 2, 3, 4
• al-Shāmī, Rashād, 1
• American Joint Distribution Society, 1
• Améry, Jean (Hans Mayer), 1, 2
• angels, 1, 2, 3
• An-ski, Sh., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• anti-Semitism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
• anti-Semitic campaign 1968, 1, 2, 3
• ʿArāyidī, Naʿīm, 1
• Arendt, Hannah, 1, 2
• Asch, Sholem, 1, 2
• assimilation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Ballas, Shimon, 1
• Banasiewicz-Ossowska, Ewa, 1
• Bartmiński, Jerzy, 1
• Bayādsī, Maḥmūd, 1
• Benjamin, Walter, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Berlin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Bialik, Haim Nahman, 1, 2, 3, 4
• Bialystok/Białystok, 1, 2
• Bible
• – exegesis, 1, 2, 3
• – translations of, 1, 2, 3, 4
• Blücher, Heinrich, 1
• Brenner, Yosef Haim, 1, 2, 3
• Brzozowska, Małgorzata, 1
• Buber, Martin, 1, 2, 3
• Cahan, Abraham, 1, 2
• Célan, Paul, 1
• Christianity, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• communism, see also socialism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• correspondence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• deparochialization, 1
• diary, 1, 2, 3
• Diaspora, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Eliach, Yaffa, 1
• Exilcafés, 1
• Fackenheim, Emil, 1
• Feldman, Wilhelm, 1
• Folks-Farlag Publishing House, 1, 2
• Frank, Anne, 1
• Frank, Otto, 1
• Freud, Sigmund, 1, 2
• Frishman, David, 1, 2, 3, 4
• Ghanāyim, Muḥammad Ḥamza, 1, 2
• ghetto, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Gilbert Finnegan, Marianne, 1
• Gilbert, Jean, 1
• Gilbert, Robert, 1, 2
• Głos Żydowski (Warsaw, weekly), 1
• Goldberg-Mulkiewicz, Olga, 1
• Gressmann, Hugo, 1
• Ḥaddād, ʿEzra, 1
• Ḥaddād, Meir, 1
• Ḥammād, Aḥmad, 1
• Hebraism, 1, 2
• Heymann, Werner Richard, 1, 2
• Hofshteyn, Dovid, 1, 2
• Holocaust, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Iliad
• – Jewish Translations of, 1
• intelligentsia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• Isaiah, 1, 2, 3
• Israel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• Izraelita (Warsaw weekly), 1, 2
• Jedwabne, 1, 2
• Jesus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Jewish place(s), 1
• Joseph, 1
• Judaism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Junosza, Klemens (Szaniawski, Klemens), 1, 2
• Kacyzne, Alter, 1
• Kapeliuk, Menahem, 1
• Kertész, Imre, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Kiever Farlag (publishing house), 1, 2
• Kirszrot, Jan, 1
• Klausner, Joseph, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Knox, Israel, 1
• Krall, Hanna, 1, 2, 3, 4
• Kultur-Lige, 1, 2
• languages
• – Arabic, 1, 2, 3, 4
• – Dutch, 1, 2
• – English, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• – French, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• – German, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
• – Greek, 1, 2, 3, 4
• – Hebrew, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• – Hungarian, 1, 2, 3
• – Italian, 1
• – Polish, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• – Russian, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• – Yiddish, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
• Lanzmann, Claude, 1, 2
• Leitner, Isabella, 1, 2
• Leopoldi, Hermann, 1
• Levi, Primo, 1, 2, 3
• Levinas, Emmanuel, 1, 2
• Lew, Henryk, 1
• Libera, Zbigniew, 1
• Liliental, Regina, 1, 2, 3
• Litai, A., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Litvakov, Moyshe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Loewe, Frederic, 1
• Luther, Martin, 1, 2, 3, 4
• Mallūl, Nissīm, 1
• Mann, Thomas, 1
• memory, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Mendelssohn, Moses, 1, 2, 3
• Michael, Sami, 1
• migration, see also aliyah 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• musical comedy, 1
• New York, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Ohr, Jerzy, 1
• Ojczyzna (Lvov monthly), 1
• Omanut (publishing house), 1, 2
• operetta, 1
• Ostrolenka/ Ostrołęka, 1, 2
• Palestine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Paris, 1
• People’s Republic of Poland, 1, 2, 3, 4
• Peretz, Yitskhok-Leybush, 1, 2
• Persits, Shoshana, 1, 2, 3, 4
• poetry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• prayer, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• prose, 1, 2, 3, 4
• readership, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Rivlin, Joseph Joel, 1
• Rosen, Alan, 1
• Rosenstock-Heussy, Eugen, 1
• Rosenzweig, Franz, 1
• Rozenfeld, Moris (Rosenfeld, Morris), 1
• Schneider, Lambert, 1, 2
• Septuagint, 1, 2, 3, 4
• Shammas, Anton, 1
• Shamosh, Tuvia, 1
• Shoah, see also Holocaust, 1, 2, 3
• Shteynman, Eliezer, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• socialism, see also communism, 1, 2, 3
• Somekh, Sasson, 1
• Stomma, Ludwik, 1
• Stybel publishing house, 1, 2
• Suesser, Ignacy, 1
• Szofman, Józef, 1, 2
• Testament
• – Old, 1, 2, 3, 4
• – New, 1, 2, 3
• testimony, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• The Forward Association, 1, 2, 3
• The Star of Redemption, 1
• Torberg, Friedrich, 1
• Tshernikhovsky, Shaul, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• underworld, 1, 2
• vernacular, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• Vienna, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Virgin Mary, 1, 2
• Vishniac, Roman, 1, 2
• Vulgate, 1, 2
• Waldheim, Kurt, 1, 2, 3
• Warsaw, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Weinreich, Max, 1, 2
• Weys, Rudolf, 1, 2
• Wieviorka, Anette, 1
• witness, witnessing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• World War
• – First, 1, 2, 3, 4
• – Second, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Yiddish literature, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO), 1
• Yiddishism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Yiddish-Polish translations, 1
• yishuv, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Yizkor Book, 1, 2
• Zionism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Zweig, Stefan, 1

Endnotes

1In her recent study Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora, Tessa Rajak complicates this idea, calling into question the well-accepted narrative that Jews abandoned the Septuagint in response to the rise of Christianity. See particularly her chapter “The Septuagint Between Jews and Christians,” 278–314.

2For the nuances of the process, see for example the book...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Jewish Translation / Translating Jewishness
• Around the Book
• Borderlands and Bridges
• Migrations and Inspirations
• Translation after the Shoah
• Authors and Translators in Conversation
• Contributors
• Index