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Reading Israel, Reading America - The Politics of Translation between Jews (Paperback)
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Reading Israel, Reading America - The Politics of Translation between Jews (Paperback)
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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American and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the
contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish
life has been radically different. As Philip Roth put it, they are
the "heirs jointly of a drastically bifurcated legacy." But what
happens when the encounter between American and Israeli Jewishness
takes place in literary form-when Jewish American novels make
aliyah, or when Israeli novels are imported for consumption by the
diaspora? Reading Israel, Reading America explores the politics of
translation as it shapes the understandings and misunderstandings
of Israeli literature in the United States and American Jewish
literature in Israel. Engaging in close readings of translations of
iconic novels by the likes of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Bernard
Malamud, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, and Yoram Kaniuk-in particular,
the ideologically motivated omissions and additions in the
translations, and the works' reception by reviewers and public
intellectuals-Asscher decodes the literary encounter between
Israeli and American Jews. These discrepancies demarcate an ongoing
cultural dialogue around representations of violence, ethics,
Zionism, diaspora, and the boundaries between Jews and non-Jews.
Navigating the disputes between these "rival siblings" of the
Jewish world, Asscher provocatively untangles the cultural
relations between Israeli and American Jews.
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