Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation Between Jews by Asscher, Omri
Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation Between Jews by Asscher, Omri

Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation Between Jews

American and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of...
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Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation Between Jews by Asscher, Omri

Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation Between Jews

$551.61
Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation Between Jews by Asscher, Omri

Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation Between Jews

$551.61
Author: Omri Asscher
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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American and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish life has been radically different. As Philip Roth put it, they are the heirs jointly of a drastically bifurcated legacy. But what happens when the encounter between American and Israeli Jewishness takes place in literary form--when Jewish American novels make aliyah, or when Israeli novels are imported for consumption by the diaspora?

Reading Israel, Reading America explores the politics of translation as it shapes the understandings and misunderstandings of Israeli literature in the United States and American Jewish literature in Israel. Engaging in close readings of translations of iconic novels by the likes of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, and Yoram Kaniuk--in particular, the ideologically motivated omissions and additions in the translations, and the works' reception by reviewers and public intellectuals--Asscher decodes the literary encounter between Israeli and American Jews. These discrepancies demarcate an ongoing cultural dialogue around representations of violence, ethics, Zionism, diaspora, and the boundaries between Jews and non-Jews. Navigating the disputes between these rival siblings of the Jewish world, Asscher provocatively untangles the cultural relations between Israeli and American Jews.



Author: Omri Asscher
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 11/26/2019
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781503610934

About the Author
Omri Asscher is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Bar-Ilan University. His translations into Hebrew include Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Watt and Guy Deutscher's The Unfolding of Language.
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