Jewish Translation - Translating Jewishness
Jewish Translation - Translating Jewishness This interdisciplinary volume looks at one of the central cultural practices within the Jewish experience: translation. It also addresses how non-Jews have…
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Jewish Translation - Translating Jewishness
This interdisciplinary volume looks at one of the central cultural practices within the Jewish experience: translation. 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 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.