[Jewish] Barbara Harshav talk, Apr. 3, 4:30PM EDH 2

[Rachel Rubinstein]

Come to this great talk!

> Mellon Grant Initiative in Translation at Hampshire College Invites:
> Barbara Harshav "Text, Subtext, Context: Meanings in 'Jewish' Translation"
> Hampshire College, Emily Dickinson Hall, 2
> April 3, 2013 4.30pm
>
> Along with the "normal" issues of translation, translating from  
> "Jewish" languages has its own special set of problems.  These stem  
> primarily from the lack of familiarity with cultural references,  
> which may be drawn from so-called religious practices or from  
> classical and historical Jewish texts and are not in the general set  
> of cultural contexts.  What is a translator to do, for example, with  
> the word "Tefillin," which translates into English (as it were) as  
> "Phylacteries"?
>
> Barbara Harshav
> Barbara Harshav translates from French, German, and Yiddish, in  
> addition to Hebrew. Her translations from Hebrew include works by  
> prominent authors such as Michal Govrin, Yehudah Amihai, Meir  
> Shalev, and Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon. She teaches in the  
> Comparative Literature department at Yale University.










Rachel Rubinstein
Associate Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies
Dean of Academic Support and Advising
Hampshire College
893 West Street
Amherst MA 01002
413.559.5498