“world literature”
Blog
Translating Jewish Multilingualism
Marina Mayorski
Translation into English adds another layer to the intertwined legacy of translation and migration in the works presented in this recent volume.
Jun 11, 2024
Review
Review of Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry by Adriana X. Jacobs
Shoshana Olidort
Jacobs (who, in addition to being a scholar of modern Hebrew literature, is also an accomplished translator and poet) offers a rethinking of the modern Hebrew canon as fundamentally shaped by what she calls a “translational poetics.”
May 03, 2021
Review
Review of Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody by Saul Noam Zaritt
Danny Luzon
Replete with insightful close readings of key historical and literary texts, Jewish American Writing and World Literature complicates the limiting binary of the national/transnational models.
Mar 15, 2021
Blog
Yiddish, Translation, and a World Literature To-Come
Saul Noam Zaritt
In geveb's founding editor discusses different models of Yiddish in relation to world literature through the figures of Sholem Asch and Jacob Glatstein.
Jan 23, 2017
Texts & Translation
דער מאַרש צו די גױים
The March to the Goyim
Jacob Glatstein
Translation by Saul Noam Zaritt
A no-holds-barred essay from Jacob Glatstein on publishing, translation, and world literature.
Jan 23, 2017
Texts & Translation
וועגן דעם ווערט פֿון איבערזעצונגען
On the Worth of Translations
Chaim Zhitlowsky
Translation by Joshua Price
In this 1910 essay, Chaim Zhitlowsky examines how the translation of works of world literature into Yiddish can be a way to establish Yiddish as a kultur-shprakh, a language as modern and expressive as European languages.
Aug 11, 2015