Whose Bible is it Anyway? The Buber-Rosenzweig Translation as a Bible for Christian Readers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Jewish Translation / Translating Jewishness 1
5. Around the Book
6. The Fallen (Or) Giants? The Gigantic Qualities of the Nefilim in the Hebrew Bible 17
7. Whose Bible is it Anyway? The Buber-Rosenzweig Translation as a Bible for Christian Readers 39
8. Borderlands and Bridges
9. Not The Dybbuk but Don Quixote: Translation, Deparochialization, and Nationalism in Jewish Culture, 1917–1919 67
10. Maneuvering around the “Great Wall of China”: Translations of Yiddish Literature into Polish before the First World War 113
11. Non-Jewish Languages of Jewish Magic: On Homeliness, Otherness, and Translation 135
12. Migrations and Inspirations
13. “Da wär’s halt gut, wenn man Englisch könnt!” Robert Gilbert, Hermann Leopoldi and the Role of Languages between Exile and Return 153
14. The Politics of Translation: The German-Hebrew Case 173
15. Hegemony and Ideology in the Translations between Arabic and Hebrew Literatures in Modern Times 193
16. The Saint of Socialist Palestine: Yosef Haim Brenner in Polish Translation 213
17. Translation after the Shoah
18. The Tower of Babel: Holocaust Testimonials and the Ethics of Translation 237
19. Ania’s Diary: The Polish Translation of the Diary of Anne Frank: Its History, First Publication, and Reception in Post-Stalinist Poland 259
20. Translation and Re-Vision: On the Resurgence and Resurfacing of Alter Kacyzne’s Photographic Texts 279
21. Authors and Translators in Conversation
22. The Boundaries of Translation: Polish-Jewish-German Literary Borderlands 303
23. On a Jew in the Attic and Hybrid Identity 311
24. On Naming the Dead and Splinters of Truth 319
25. On Mother, Fatherland, and the Judeo-Communist Nation 327
26. On Searching for the Truth and Translation that Gets under the Skin 337
27. Contributors 347
28. Index 351