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In the Face of Adversity
Translating difference and dissent
Thomas Nolden (ed.)
In honour of Lawrence A. Rosenwald
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Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xii
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
Thomas Nolden
Part I: Modes of Perseverance: Translating the
Jewish Tradition 17
1. Lamentations 3: A Four- Voiced Rendering 19
Edward L. Greenstein
2. Isaiah 1 in Translation and Contexts 33
Everett Fox
3. Emma Lazarus, Heinrich Heine and the Splendid Galaxy
of Jewish Poetry 41
Abigail Gillman
4. City of the Dead or The Dead City? Yitskhok- Leybush
Peretz as Self- Translator 65
Efrat Gal- Ed
Part II: Modes of Intervention: Translating Dissent
and Diversity 93
5. How George Eliot Came to Write 95
Gail Twersky Reimer
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6. Venture, Courage, Ruin: Karin Michaëlis in Translation
Across Genre and Time 112
Katherine Hollander
7. Lu Xun’s Unfaithful Translation of Science Fiction:
Rewriting Chinese Literary History 129
Mingwei Song
8. Translating Chinese Science Fiction into English:
Decolonization and Reconciliation on a Cultural Battlefield 145
Emily Xueni Jin
9. Whose Voice(s)?: Authorship, Translation, and Diversity
in Contemporary Children’s Literature 160
Isabelle Chen
Part III: Modes of Remedialization: Translating
Beyond the Text 177
10. Seeing Images, Thinking of Words: Visual Art
as Translation 179
Werner Sollors
11. Theatre without Theatres: Performance
Transmission as Translation 193
Sarah Bay- Cheng
12. From Miami to Hong Kong: Sounding Transnational
Queerness and Translation in Moonlight 207
K. E. Goldschmitt
13. Crowd Noise: Collective Turbulence in Modern Opera 221
Martin Brody
14. Creative Translation in Emerson’s Idealism 237
Kenneth P. Winkler
Index 254
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Notes on Contributors
Sarah Bay- Cheng currently serves as the Dean of the School of the Arts, Media,
Performance and Design at York University. She previously served as Chair and
Professor of Theatre and Dance at Bowdoin College and as the founding Director
of Graduate Studies in Theatre & Performance at the University at Buffalo
(UB), SUNY. In 2012, she founded the Technē Institute for Arts and Emerging
Technology at UB, a collaboration that connected faculty researchers and stu-
dents working at the intersection of art, computer science, design, engineering,
media and performance. Her research focuses on the intersections among per-
formance and media including histories of cinema, experimental theatre, social
media and computer technology in contemporary performance.
Martin Brody is the Catherine Mills Davis Professor Emeritus of Music at
Wellesley College, a composer of concert music and historian of modern music –
especially music of the Cold War in relation to other arts. He teaches composition,
theory and history of music, with a special emphasis on twentieth- century and
recent music. He is especially interested in pedagogy that connects music to the
study of other arts, philosophy and cultural history. He also enjoys teaching all
aspects of music theory, especially in relation to questions of musical cognition
and aesthetics.
Isabelle Chen is a PhD candidate in the Department of French and Italian at
Princeton University, where she primarily studies twentieth-c entury narratives
of migration and exile. She has a great interest in multilingual literature and
language politics, inspired both by her professional experience in the publish-
ing industry and by her undergraduate work with Larry Rosenwald, including
a particularly rich and formative experience in his seminar ‘Translation and the
multilingual world’.
Everett Fox is the Allen M. Glick Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies at Clark
University. His main scholarly focus is the rhetoric and internal coherence of the
Hebrew Bible, and how they may be emphasized in translation. Among his many
publications are Scripture and Translation (a translation of Buber and Rosenzweig,
Die Schrift und ihre Verdeutschung), which he edited and translated together with
Lawrence Rosenwald. His The Five Books of Moses: (The Schocken Bible, Volume 1)
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A New English Translation with Commentary and Notes was published in 1995, Give
Us a King!: A New English Translation of the Book of Samuel in 1999 and The Early
Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings in 2014.
Efrat Gal- Ed is Professor of Yiddish Literature and Culture at the Institute
for History at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, where she heads the
section of Yiddish Research and Editions. Her recent publications include
Niemandssprache: Itzik Manger – ein europäischer Dichter (2016); Das Buch der
Jüdischen Jahresfeste (revised edition, 2019); and Crossing the Border: an anthol-
ogy of modern Yiddish short stories (in Yiddish), edited with Simon Neuberg and
Daria Vakhrushova (2021).
Abigail Gillman is Professor of Hebrew, German and Comparative Literature
in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Boston University,
where she is also affiliated faculty in the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies
and the Graduate Program on Religion. She is the author of Viennese Jewish
Modernism: Freud, Hofmannsthal, Beer-H ofmann and Schnitzler (2009) and A
History of German Jewish Bible Translation (2018). Her essay ‘Martin Buber’s
Message to Postwar Germany’ (2014) won the 2015 Egon Schwarz Prize for an
Outstanding Essay in the Area of German Jewish Studies.
K. E. Goldschmitt is Associate Professor of Music at Wellesley College. They
publish on the transnational mediation of music, musicians and music tech-
nology, especially involving the Lusophone world. Their first book is Bossa
Mundo: Brazilian music in transnational media industries (2020) and they co-
edited a special issue of American Music ‘Platforms, Labor, and Community in
Online Listening’. Prior to Wellesley, Goldschmitt held research and teaching
positions at University of Cambridge, New College of Florida and Colby College.
Edward L. Greenstein is Professor Emeritus of Bible at Bar-I lan University.
Greenstein began teaching there in 2006, where he also headed the Institute for
Jewish Biblical Interpretation and held the Meiser Chair in Biblical Studies. He
also served as Chair of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Hermeneutics
and Cultural Studies. Prior to that, he served as Professor at Tel Aviv University
from 1996 to 2006. From 1976 through 1996, he taught at the Jewish Theological
Seminary in New York, where he became Professor of Bible in 1989. He has also
taught at the Columbia University Graduate School, Yale University, Princeton
University, Union Theological Seminary, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and
other institutions of higher learning.
Katherine Hollander is a poet, historian, and Brecht scholar. She holds an MA
in creative writing and a PhD in modern European history, both from Boston
University. She is the editor of a student edition of Mother Courage and her
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