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The Problem of Materiality in Yiddish Translation

In the sec­ond essay in our series of reflec­tions on trans­lat­ing Yid­dish in the twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry, Sarah Ponichtera thinks about how we can bring a sense of mate­ri­al­i­ty to our translations. 

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Feminist Dybbuks in Melbourne: Possession, Desire and Voice

In August 2018, Aus­tralian the­atre mak­er and direc­tor Sama­ra Her­sch, along with Cham­ber Made, a com­pa­ny oper­at­ing at the nexus of con­tem­po­rary per­for­mance, music and sound’, pre­sent­ed Dyb­buks – a pro­duc­tion in three acts explor­ing ideas of pos­ses­sion; of women being with the dead; of desire, rit­u­al, and voice. Here, Nico­la Menser Hearn reviews the pro­duc­tion and dis­cuss­es it with Hersch.


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