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192 - The Merchant of Venice in the Jewish Diaspora: German, Hebrew, Yiddish

from Part XIX - Translation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Dror Abend-David
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Adler, JacobBerlinGuthrie, TyroneHebrewHolocaustIsraelJewishReinhardt, MaxSchildkraut, RichardShylocktranslationYiddishYiddish Theater
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1392 - 1399
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Abend-David, Dror. “Scorned My Nation”: A Comparison of Translations of “The Merchant of Venice” into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.Google Scholar
Almagor, Dan. “Shakespeare in Hebrew Literature during the Periods of Enlightenment and [Hebrew] Renaissance: Bibliographic Overview and a Bibliography.” Jubilee Volume for Simon Halkin: On the Occasion of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday. Ed. Shakhevits, Boaz and Peri, Menahem. Jerusalem: R. Mas, 1975. 721–84. In Hebrew.Google Scholar
Berkowitz, Joel. Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage. University of Iowa Press Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2002.Google Scholar
Bloom, Harold, ed. Shylock. New York: Chelsea House, 1991.Google Scholar
Gross, John J. Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964.Google Scholar
Gundolf, Friedrich. Shakespeare und der deutsche Geist. Berlin: Georg Bondi, 1922. In German.Google Scholar
Jansohn, Christa. “The Making of a National Poet: Shakespeare, Carl Joseph Meyer, and the German Book-Market in the Nineteenth Century.” Modern Language Review 90.3 (1995): 545–55.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Larson, Kenneth E. “The Origins of the ‘Schlegel–Tieck’ Shakespeare in the 1820s.” German Quarterly (winter 1987): 19–37.Google Scholar
Oz, Avraham. The Yoke of Love: Prophetic Riddles in “The Merchant of Venice.” Newark: U of Delaware P, 1995.Google Scholar
Prager, Leonard. “Shakespeare in Yiddish.” Shakespeare Quarterly 19.2 (1968): 149–63.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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