Jewish Translation History

Author : Robert Singerman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296368

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Jewish Translation History by Robert Singerman Pdf

A classified bibliographic resource for tracing the history of Jewish translation activity from the Middle Ages to the present day, providing the researcher with over a thousand entries devoted solely to the Jewish role in the east-to-west transmission of Greek and Arab learning and science into Latin or Hebrew. Other major sections extend the coverage to modern times, taking special note of the absorption of European literature into the Jewish cultural orbit via Hebrew, Yiddish, or Judezmo translations, for instance, or the translation and reception of Jewish literature written in Jewish languages into other languages such as Arabic, English, French, German, or Russian. This polyglot bibliography, the first of its kind, contains over 2,600 entries, is enhanced by a vast number of additional bibliographic notes leading to reviews and related resources, and is accompanied by both an author and a subject index.

Author : Abigail Gillman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226477862

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A History of German Jewish Bible Translation by Abigail Gillman Pdf

Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational and cultural goals. Not only did translations give Jews vernacular access to their scripture without Christian intervention, but they also helped showcase the Hebrew Bible as a work of literature and the foundational text of modern Jewish identity. This book is the first in English to offer a close analysis of German Jewish translations as part of a larger cultural project. Looking at four distinct waves of translations, Abigail Gillman juxtaposes translations within each that sought to achieve similar goals through differing means. As she details the history of successive translations, we gain new insight into the opportunities and problems the Bible posed for different generations and gain a new perspective on modern German Jewish history.

Author : Thulin, Mirjam,Krah, Markus,Faierstein, Morris M.,Drori, Danielle,Coors, Maria,Schramm, Netta,Driver, Cory,Holzman, Gitit,Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad,Fishbane, Eitan P.,Gruenbaum, Caroline,Schirrmeister, Sebastian,Ferrari, Francesco,Stemberger, Günter,Schmölz-Häberlein , Michaela,Müller, Judith,Schulz, Michael K.,Meyer, Thomas,Artwińska, Anna,Walter, Simon
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783869564685

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Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture by Thulin, Mirjam,Krah, Markus,Faierstein, Morris M.,Drori, Danielle,Coors, Maria,Schramm, Netta,Driver, Cory,Holzman, Gitit,Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad,Fishbane, Eitan P.,Gruenbaum, Caroline,Schirrmeister, Sebastian,Ferrari, Francesco,Stemberger, Günter,Schmölz-Häberlein , Michaela,Müller, Judith,Schulz, Michael K.,Meyer, Thomas,Artwińska, Anna,Walter, Simon Pdf

PaRDeS. Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V., möchte die fruchtbare und facettenreiche Kultur des Judentums sowie seine Berührungspunkte zur Umwelt in den unterschiedlichen Bereichen dokumentieren. Daneben dient die Zeitschrift als Forum zur Positionierung der Fächer Jüdische Studien und Judaistik innerhalb des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses sowie zur Diskussion ihrer historischen und gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung. PaRDeS. Journal of the Association of Jewish Studies e. V. The journal aims at documenting the fruitful and multifarious culture of Judaism as well as its relations to its environment within diverse areas of research. In addition, the journal is meant to promote Jewish Studies within academic discourse and discuss its historic and social responsibility.

Author : Robert Singerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Hebrew literature
ISBN : OCLC:32499566

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Jewish Translation History by Robert Singerman Pdf

Author : Jing Zhao
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359533800

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Jewish History Translation & Commentaries by Jing Zhao Pdf

This is the first to translate Jewish history with commentaries and reviews using the Chinese Phonetic Elements.

Author : Max Weinreich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0300108877

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History of the Yiddish Language by Max Weinreich Pdf

Max Weinreich's History of the Yiddish Language is a classic of Yiddish scholarship and is the only comprehensive scholarly account of the Yiddish language from its origin to the present. A monumental, definitive work, History of the Yiddish Language demonstrates the integrity of Yiddish as a language, its evolution from other languages, its unique properties, and its versatility and range in both spoken and written form. Originally published in 1973 in Yiddish by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and partially translated in 1980, it is now being published in full in English for the first time. In addition to his text, Weinreich's copious references and footnotes are also included in this two-volume set.

Author : Naomi Seidman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226745077

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Faithful Renderings by Naomi Seidman Pdf

Faithful Renderings reads translation history through the lens of Jewish–Christian difference and, conversely, views Jewish–Christian difference as an effect of translation. Subjecting translation to a theological-political analysis, Seidman asks how the charged Jewish–Christian relationship—and more particularly the dependence of Christianity on the texts and translations of a rival religion—has haunted the theory and practice of translation in the West. Bringing together central issues in translation studies with episodes in Jewish–Christian history, Naomi Seidman considers a range of texts, from the Bible to Elie Wiesel’s Night, delving into such controversies as the accuracy of various Bible translations, the medieval use of converts from Judaism to Christianity as translators, the censorship of anti-Christian references in Jewish texts, and the translation of Holocaust testimony. Faithful Renderings ultimately reveals that translation is not a marginal phenomenon but rather a crucial issue for understanding the relations between Jews and Christians and indeed the development of each religious community.

Author : Jon Douglas Levenson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691155692

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Inheriting Abraham by Jon Douglas Levenson Pdf

"Levenson provides a masterful reading of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thinking that yielded three different portraits of Abraham. He sets the record straight about the biblical patriarch."---Sidney H. Griffith, author of The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam --Book Jacket.

Author : Bernard Weinstein
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783743568

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The Jewish Unions in America by Bernard Weinstein Pdf

Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.

Author : Marc Zvi Brettler
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827610019

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How to Read the Bible by Marc Zvi Brettler Pdf

Master Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that today's contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and historical conditions that inform the biblical text and demonstrates how modern critical scholarship and archaeological discoveries shed light on this fascinating and complex literature. Brettler surveys representative biblical texts from different genres to illustrate how modern scholars have taught us to "read" these texts. Using the "historical-critical method" long popular in academia, he guides us in reading the Bible as it was read in the biblical period, independent of later religious norms and interpretive traditions. Understanding the Bible this way lets us appreciate it as an interesting text that speaks in multiple voices on profound issues. This book is the first "Jewishly sensitive" introduction to the historical-critical method. Unlike other introductory texts, the Bible that this book speaks about is the Jewish one -- with the three-part TaNaKH arrangement, the sequence of books found in modern printed Hebrew editions, and the chapter and verse enumerations used in most modern Jewish versions of the Bible. In an afterword, the author discusses how the historical-critical method can help contemporary Jews relate to the Bible as a religious text in a more meaningful way.

Author : Harry Freedman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781632866035

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The Murderous History of Bible Translations by Harry Freedman Pdf

Harry Freedman, author of The Talmud: A Biography, recounts the fascinating and bloody history of the Bible. In 1535, William Tyndale, the first man to produce an English version of the Bible in print, was captured and imprisoned in Belgium. A year later he was strangled and then burned at the stake. His co-translator was also burned. In that same year the translator of the first Dutch Bible was arrested and beheaded. These were not the first, nor were they the last instances of extreme violence against Bible translators. The Murderous History of Bible Translations tells the remarkable, and bloody, story of those who dared translate the word of God. The Bible has been translated far more than any other book. To our minds it is self-evident that believers can read their sacred literature in a language they understand. But the history of Bible translations is far more contentious than reason would suggest. Bible translations underlie an astonishing number of religious conflicts that have plagued the world. Harry Freedman describes brilliantly the passions and strong emotions that arise when deeply held religious convictions are threatened or undermined. He tells of the struggle for authority and orthodoxy in a world where temporal power was always subjugated to the divine, a world in which the idea of a Bible for all was so important that many were willing to give up their time, security, and even their lives.

Author : Abraham Malamat
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0674397312

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A History of the Jewish People by Abraham Malamat Pdf

First published in Hebrew in Tel Aviv in 1969. First English translation by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1976.

Author : Matthew A. Kraus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004343009

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Jewish, Christian, and Classical Exegetical Traditions in Jerome’s Translation of the Book of Exodus by Matthew A. Kraus Pdf

In Jewish, Christian, and Classical Exegetical Traditions in Jerome’s Translation of the Book of Exodus, Matthew Kraus analyzes the Classical, Christian, and rabbinic influences on Jerome’s translation of biblical narrative, poetry, and law.

Author : Doron B. Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004243484

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The Japanese Translations of the Hebrew Bible by Doron B. Cohen Pdf

The Japanese Translations of the Hebrew Bible: History, Inventory and Analysis, the first book of its kind in English, recounts the story of the translation of the Bible into Japanese, with particular focus on the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). It includes a detailed inventory of both full and partial OT translations into Japanese, describing the history of their making and the identity of the translators. Numerous quotations from the various translations are compared with the Hebrew original and with other versions, and analyzed linguistically and theologically. The analysis exposes the ways in which translators sought to bridge the wide linguistic and cultural gaps between the Hebrew Bible and Japan, and the ways in which their translations reflect certain aspects of Japanese society and the place of the Bible in it.

Author : Iris Idelson-Shein,Christian Wiese
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350052154

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Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History by Iris Idelson-Shein,Christian Wiese Pdf

This is the first study of monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity. Drawing on Jewish history, literary studies, folklore, art history and the history of science, it examines both the historical depiction of Jews as monsters and the creative use of monstrous beings in Jewish culture. Jews have occupied a liminal position within European society and culture, being deeply immersed yet outsiders to it. For this reason, they were perceived in terms of otherness and were often represented as monstrous beings. However, at the same time, European Jews invoked, with tantalizing ubiquity, images of magical, terrifying and hybrid beings in their texts, art and folktales. These images were used by Jewish authors and artists to push back against their own identification as monstrous or diabolical and to tackle concerns about religious persecution, assimilation and acculturation, gender and sexuality, science and technology and the rise of antisemitism. Bringing together an impressive cast of contributors from around the world, this fascinating volume is an invaluable resource for academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in Jewish studies, as well as the history of monsters.