| The First Hebrew Shakespeare Translations: A Bilingual Edition and Commentary Contributor(s): Kahn, Lily (Author) |
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ISBN: 1911307991 ISBN-13: 9781911307990 Publisher: UCL Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Hebrew - Social Science | Jewish Studies - Literary Criticism | Jewish |
| Physical Information: 550 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This pioneering book is the first bilingual analysis of Isaac Edward Salkinson's nineteenth-century translations into Hebrew of Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Lily Kahn shows how Salkinson's translations are replete with biblical, rabbinic, and medieval Hebrew textual references. The volume includes the full Hebrew texts of both plays alongside a complete English back-translation and paired with Kahn's commentary examining the array of Hebrew sources and allusions that Salkinson incorporates. The edition also contains an introduction to Jewish reception of Shakespeare in Central and Eastern Europe and a survey of Salkinson's biography and his translation strategies. |