Lawrence Rosenwald is Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College, where he taught from 1980 till 2022. He has written extensively about diaries, words and music, translation, literary multilingualism, and literature and pacifism, and is working on a book on that last subject. He has published translations of both prose and verse from Latin, German, French, Italian, and Yiddish, and has written and performed more than 50 verse scripts for early opera and early music theater.
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Translating As Saying
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Can Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig’s translation of the Hebrew Bible be considered a form of Jewish speech? When and how does translation become a Jewish way of talking?
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סאַקאָ און וואַנזעטיס מאָנטיק
Sacco and Vanzetti’s Monday
Jacob Glatstein
Translation by Lawrence Rosenwald
A poem about Sacco and Vanzetti, originally published the day before their execution.
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