ISBN:
9789004515376
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 317 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Studies in Jewish history and culture volume 72
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Guetta, Alessandro, 1954 - "An ancient psalm, a modern song"
Keywords:
Hebrew literature Translations into Italian
;
History and criticism
;
Hebrew literature Appreciation
;
Jews
;
Literary criticism
;
Hebräisch
;
Literatur
;
Übersetzung
;
Italienisch
;
Geschichte 1550-1650
Abstract:
"This volume presents the culmination of research on an almost ignored literary corpus: the translations into literary Italian of classical Hebrew texts made by Jews between 1550 and 1650. It includes dozens of poetical and philosophical texts and wisdom literature as well as dictionaries and biblical translations produced in what their authors viewed as a national tongue, common to Christians and Jews. In so doing, the authors/translators explicitly left behind the so-called Judeo-Italian. These texts, many of them being published for the first time, are studied in the context of intellectual and literary history. The book is an original contribution showing that the linguistic acculturation of German Jews in the late 18th century occurred in Italy 150 years earlier"
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004515376
