Not like Cherries, but like Peaches: Mendelssohn and Rosenzweig Translate Yehuda Halevi’s “Ode to Zion”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors’ Introduction 1
4. Part One: German-Hebrew Exchange in Modernist Literature
5. Not like Cherries, but like Peaches: Mendelssohn and Rosenzweig Translate Yehuda Halevi’s “Ode to Zion” 19
6. The Flowers of Shame: Avraham Ben Yitzhak’s Hebrew-German “Revival” 41
7. Dan Pagis’s Laboratory: Between German and Hebrew 61
8. Stuttering in Verse: Tuvia Rübner and the Art of Self-Translation 77
9. Vera Europa vs. Verus Israel: Modern Jews’ Encounter with Europe in Light of Lea Goldberg’s Encounter with a Poet 105
10. Texts and Objects: The Books of the Schocken Publishing House in the Context of their Time 121
11. איכה /Ach: Lament and Being in Hebrew and German 143
12. Part Two: German-Hebrew Encounters in the Arts Today
13. “I write bilingual poetry/in Hebrew and in silence” 159
14. Before the Hebrew Notebook: Kafka’s Words and Gestures in Translation 177
15. Europe Will Be Stunned: Visualization of a Jewish Return 197
16. “In His Image”: On Dani Karavan’s Artwork in Germany 211
17. Mikan ve’eylakh (From this Point Onward), translated by Rachel Seelig 241
18. The Berlin Prize for Hebrew Literature (excerpt from a novel in progress), translated by Rachel Seelig 253
19. About the Authors 261