Anita Norich

Writing in Tongues

Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have been translated repeatedly while many others have been ignored. Anita Norich traces historical and aesthetic shifts through versions of these canonical texts, and she argues that these works and their translations form an enlightening conversation about Jewish history and identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 269g
• ISBN-13: 9780295992976
• ISBN-10: 0295992972
• Artikelnr.: 37744970

Autorenporträt

Anita Norich is professor of English and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Translation Theory and Practice: The Yiddish Difference
2. How Tevye Learned to Fiddle
3. Remembering Jews: Translating Yiddish after the Holocaust
4. Returning to and from the Ghetto: Yankev Glatshteyn
5. Concluding Lines and Conclusions
Appendix A / Anna Margolin's "Maris tfile" in Yiddish and Translations
Appendix B / Twelve Translations of Yankev Glatshteyn's "A gute nakht,
velt"
Notes
Bibliography
Index