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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Idelson-Shein, Iris, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press [2024]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Jewish Culture and Contexts Series
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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