Translating Sholem Aleichem

History, Politics and Art

Gennady Estraikh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2012
Maney Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-907975-00-4 (ISBN)

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This book explores the rich treasury of Sholem Aleichem translations, focusing primarily on the European context. It suggests that the many-faceted issue of translating Sholem Aleichem can be considered from the different perspectives of history, politics, and art.

Gennady Estraikh

Introduction 1. Found in Translation: Sholem Aleichem and the Myth of the Ideal Yiddish Reader 2. Sholem Aleichem as a Self-Translator 3. Sholem Aleichem and the Polish-Jewish Literary Audience 4. Soviet Sholem Aleichem 5. Du host zikh a denkmol af eybik geshtelf: The Sovietization and Heroization of Sholem Aleichem in the 1939 Jubilee Poems 6. A Writer for All Seasons: Translating Sholem Aleichem into Soviet Ideological Idiom 7. Four English Pots and the Evolving Translatability of Sholem Aleichem 8. On (Un)translatability: Sholem Aleichem’s Ayznban-geshikhtes (Railroad Stories) in German Translation 9. Laughing Matters: Irony and Translation in 'Der gliklekhster in Kodne' 10. Lost in Marienbad: On the Literary Use of the Linguistic Openness of Yiddish 11. Sholem Aleichem in Estonian: Creating a Tradition 12. Speaking Tevye der milkhiker in Translation: Performance, Humour, and World Literature

Verlagsort	Leeds
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	589 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-907975-00-4 / 1907975004
ISBN-13	978-1-907975-00-4 / 9781907975004
Zustand	Neuware