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Publication details [#7666]
Abend-David, Dror. 2003. 'Scorned my nation': a comparison of translations of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish (Comparative Cultures and Literatures 16). Bern: Peter Lang. 247 pp.
Publication type
Monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Source language
Person as a subject
Title as subject
Main ISBN
0-8204-5798-1
Abstract
In this book, the German history of The Merchant of Venice highlights the Central European detour that Shakespearean reception underwent in Hebrew and Yiddish. Such a detour, with its various discomforts, is used to penetrate a current historical and political historiography, rendering Shylock a character that remembers various languages and locations, as well as multiple alternatives for political self-definition. This complex Shakespearean character speaks in many voices and for various purposes and is the only character that can provide the missing link between two contradictory Jewish stereotypes - a persecuted and victimized underling and a merciless and violent plaintive, holding out his knife to draw blood.
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Reviewed by
Delabastita, Dirk. 2005. Review of 'Scorned my nation': a comparison of translations of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. The Translator 11 (1) : 93–97. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Weissbrod, Rachel. 2005. Review of 'Scorned my nation': a comparison of translations of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Target 17 (1) : 193–196. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Simon, Sherry. 2005. Review of 'Scorned my nation': a comparison of translations of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. In Foz, Clara and Francisco Lafarga, eds. Traductions et représentations: parcours dans l'espace hispanique II [Translations and representations: exploring the Hispanic world II]. Special issue of Traduction Terminologie Rédaction (TTR) 18 (1) : 195–198: 251–252. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)