“Aber wie soll ich denn aus dem Jiddischen übersetzen?”: Gershom Scholem and the Problem of Translating Yiddish
Abstract
I Westjuden, Ostjuden, and the Place of Yiddish
During the First World War, the young Gershom (Gerhard) Scholem (1897–1982) published a typically forceful critique of three recent works of translation from Yiddish into German. His article, “Zum Problem der Übersetzung aus dem Jidischen [sic]” [On the Problem of Translating from Yiddish] (1917), reveals important dimensions of the cultural place of Yiddish in this period. Of general importance for understanding the development of Scholem's conception of language, the article and the exchange that it inspired also show in particular how, even within the camp of those sympathetic or devoting themselves to greater understanding of the Ostjuden, in some cases also converting their sympathy into practical action, there were widely differing approaches to the correct means and method by which this should be achieved.
© Walter de Gruyter 2007
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- In Memoriam Stéphane Mosès
- Editorial
- Weiße Stellen und schwarze Löcher: Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in Ostgalizien
- Epistemics of the Holocaust Considering the Question of “Why?” and of “How?”
- La mémoire, l'histore, l'oubli: A Symposium with Paul Ricœur. Part I: Prefatory Remarks
- Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Remembrance
- Concepts of Time and Space in Phenomenology
- “Aber wie soll ich denn aus dem Jiddischen übersetzen?”: Gershom Scholem and the Problem of Translating Yiddish
- Hannah Arendt on Action and Exile
- Zum Briefwechsel von Leo Löwenthal und Siegfried Kracauer
