Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe

by Iris Idelson-Shein

Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times. Offering a comprehensive view of early modern Jewish translation, Iris Idelson-Shein charts major paths of textual migration from non-Jewish to Jewish literatures, analyzes translators' motives, and identifies the translational norms distinctive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512824941
• ISBN13: 9781512824940
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"