Translating Sholem Aleichem: History,

Sholem Aleichem, whose 150th anniversary was commemorated in March 2009, remains one of the most popular Yiddish authors. But few people today are able to read him in the original. Since the 1920s, however, Aleichems works have been known to a wider international audience through numerous translations, and through film and theatre adaptations, most famously Fiddler on the Roof. This volume examines those translations published in Europe, with the aim of investigating how the specific European contexts might have shaped translations of Yiddish literature.

Legenda is a joint imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing. Titles range from medieval texts to contemporary cinema and form a widely comparative view or the modern humanities.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Illustrations	p. x
List of Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Found in Translation: Sholem Aleichem and the Myth of the Ideal Yiddish Reader	p. 6
Sholem Aleichem as a Self-Translator	p. 25
Sholem Aleichem and the Polish-Jewish Literary Audience	p. 47
Soviet Sholem Aleichem	p. 62
'Du host zikh a denkmol af eybik geshtelt': The Sovietization and Heroization of Sholem Aleichem in the 1939 Jubilee Poems	p. 83
A Writer for All Seasons: Translating Sholem Aleichem into Soviet Ideological Idiom	p. 98
Four English Pots and the Evolving Translatability of Sholem Aleichem	p. 113
On (Un)translatability: Sholem Aleichem's Ayznban-geshikhtes (Railroad Stories) in German Translation	p. 134
Laughing Matters: Irony and Translation in 'Der gliklekhster in Kodne'	p. 150
Lost in Marienbad: On the Literary Use of the Linguistic Openness of Yiddish	p. 165
Sholem Aleichem in Estonian: Creating a Tradition	p. 182
Speaking Tevye der milkhiker in Translation: Performance, Humour, and World Literature	p. 199
Index	p. 215
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Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics and Art

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