YIDDISH IN GERMAN

Yiddish in German: A Cultural History of Translation

Coordinatore	THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM.    more  Organization address address: GIVAT RAM CAMPUS city: JERUSALEM postcode: 91904 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Hani Cognome: Ben Yehuda Email: send email Telefono: +972 2 6586618 Fax: +972 7 22447007
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Israel [IL]
Totale costo	100˙000 €
EC contributo	100˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG
Funding Scheme	MC-CIG
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-09-01   -   2017-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM.  Organization address address: GIVAT RAM CAMPUS city: JERUSALEM postcode: 91904 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Hani Cognome: Ben Yehuda Email: send email Telefono: +972 2 6586618 Fax: +972 7 22447007	IL (JERUSALEM)	coordinator	100˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This project explores German translations of Yiddish literature, published in the German-speaking world over the period of five centuries: from the mid-sixteenth century and up to the present day. Although a historical study in nature, the project also makes extensive use of the insights and methodologies developed in the field of Translation Studies over the past few decades. Going beyond a strict linguistic analysis to examine the translated works in their historical backgrounds and ideological frameworks, the project uses the cultural phenomenon of German translations from Yiddish as a window into broader mechanisms in German-Jewish history throughout the early modern and modern periods. The project will focus not only on internal German-Jewish developments, but also on the interactions between Jews and non-Jews in Germany on the one hand, and between the German Jews and their east-European coreligionists on the other hand. By analyzing a large body of translations, and the discourses surrounding them, from the perspective of cultural history, the project seeks to shed light on an important and hitherto under-represented chapter in the history of the Yiddish-German encounter. It thus aims to contribute not only to the field of Yiddish Studies, but first and foremost to those of German and German-Jewish history and culture, which it illuminates from the unique perspective of translation. As the first major attempt to put German translations from Yiddish at the center of a systematic and comprehensive study, and to narrate the cultural history of this important genre, the project also aims to contribute to the emerging field of cultural and social history of translation, and to promote our theoretical understanding of the role of translation in the evolution of cultures and the interactions between them.'