Iris Idelson-Shein (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Times – 5 pm
Feb 18 - Lecture one:
Between Imitation and Innovation: Revealing the Hidden Corpus of Early Modern Jewish Translations
Feb 19 - Lecture two:
Not to Need Another Nation: Motivations for Translation in Early Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Translations
Feb 25 - Lecture three:
No Place Like Home: The Uses of Travel in Early Maskilic Translations
Location: Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall (reception to follow)
Lecture poster: Download as PDF
Short bio for Iris Idelson-Shein
Iris Idelson-Shein is a senior lecturer at the department of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and director of the collaborative research project on Jewish Translation and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Europe, funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Her research interests include cultural translation, Old Yiddish literature, science, and gender in early modern Ashkenaz. She is the author of Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).
