Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe

Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non—Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times. Offering a comprehensive view of early modern Jewish translation, Iris Idelson—Shein charts major paths of textual migration from non—Jewish to Jewish literatures, analyzes translators’ motives, and identifies the translational norms distinctive to Jewish translation. Through an analysis of tra...