Kahn, LO;
(2017)
Judaisation in the first Hebrew translation of Romeo and Juliet.
In: Cerda, JF and Delabastita, D and Gregor, K, (eds.)
Romeo and Juliet in European Culture.
(pp. 119-138).
John Benjamins: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Abstract
Ram and Jael (Salkinson 1878), the earliest Hebrew version of Romeo and Juliet, is a highly domesticating translation containing numerous Jewish cultural elements. This is attributable to the fact that the translation formed part of an ideologically loaded Jewish Enlightenment initiative to establish a European-style literary canon in Hebrew and reflecting Jewish values at a time when the language was still almost solely a written medium prior to its late nineteenth-century re-vernacularisation in Palestine. This chapter discusses the unusual sociolinguistic background to Ram and Jael and analyses its main Judaising features, which include the treatment of non-Jewish names; holidays and rituals; establishments; oaths and expressions; mythological figures; and foreign languages, as well as the insertion of biblical verses.
Type: | Book chapter |
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Title: | Judaisation in the first Hebrew translation of Romeo and Juliet |
ISBN-13: | 9789027209122 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1075/sec.1.07kah |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1075/sec.1.07kah |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Judaism, translation, Eastern Europe, Isaac Salkinson, biblical, Maskilic, Hebrew, Jewish, Haskalah, domesticating, Enlightenment |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10039746 |
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