Between the Bridge and the Barricade : Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe

Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times. Offering a comprehensive view of early modern Jewish translation, Iris Idelson-Shein charts major pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Idelson-Shein, Iris (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2024]
Series:	Jewish Culture and Contexts
Subjects:	European literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Translations > History and criticism. Jewish literature > Translations > History and criticism. Jews > Civilization > Foreign influences. Jews > Languages > Translating. Translating and interpreting > Europe > History. Littérature juive > Traductions > Histoire et critique. Juifs > Civilisation > Influence étrangère. Juifs > Langues > Traduction. HISTORY / Jewish. Early modern Jewish history. European history literature. European vernacular languages. Haskalah. Hebrew. Imitation. Jewish Christian relations. Jewish translation. Jews and science. Jewtact. Judaizing. Latin. Maskilic. Old Yiddish. Translation studies. database catalog. gender stereotypes. mistranslated mistranslation. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Note on Translations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. From Metaphors to Mechanisms: Facts and Figures of Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe
Chapter 2. Ploughing a Field to Which You Have No Claim: The Question of Motivation
Chapter 3. Translation as Judaization: The Norms of Jewish Translation
Chapter 4. Between the Trickle and the Tide: Maskilic Translations Around the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
Conclusion. Of Bridges and Barricades
Appendix. The JEWTACT Database
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments