{"title":"Nathan der Weise in Jerusalem: Elias Haddadʼs Re-appropriation of Tolerance in Mandate Palestine","authors":"Sarah Irving","doi":"10.5771/9783896657954-253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896657954-253","url":null,"abstract":"In 1932 Elias Haddad, a teacher at a German orphanage in Jerusalem, published the first Arabic translation of Gotthold Lessingʼs Nathan der Weise. The play is famous as a call for interfaith tolerance and recognition of the place of Jewish people in European societies. But what might its publication in Mandate Palestine signify, at a time of rising tensions between local Arabs and Jewish immigrants? I explore Elias Haddadʼs translation and paratextual materials, arguing that they show continuities from other expressions of Jewish belonging in the Levant, and challenge stereotyped notions of Arab attitudes in interwar Palestine. [Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise, Nathan der Weise, Arabic, Translation, Elias Haddad, Pales-","PeriodicalId":103314,"journal":{"name":"Translating Wor(l)ds","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116021103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maya Divinities in Christian Discourse: The Multivocalities of Colonial Mendicant Translations from Highland Guatemala","authors":"Frauke Sachse","doi":"10.5771/9783896657954-49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896657954-49","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103314,"journal":{"name":"Translating Wor(l)ds","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127194132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narratives of Female Genius in the Mission Field: Five Case Studies in China","authors":"Alison Jasper","doi":"10.5771/9783896657954-231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896657954-231","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103314,"journal":{"name":"Translating Wor(l)ds","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125611541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"God and the Goths: Translation Techniques for the Germanic Tribes","authors":"B. Murdoch","doi":"10.5771/9783896657954-29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896657954-29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103314,"journal":{"name":"Translating Wor(l)ds","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114141009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wanderings of Altjira, Christianity and the Translation of Sacred Words in Central Australia","authors":"D. Moore","doi":"10.5771/9783896657954-127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896657954-127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103314,"journal":{"name":"Translating Wor(l)ds","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121069636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Ou libéré?” ‒ Vodou and Haiti: Speaking the Language of Resistance, Remembrance and Freedom in the Writing of Edwidge Danticat","authors":"Fiona Darroch","doi":"10.5771/9783896657954-283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896657954-283","url":null,"abstract":"In Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz S (ed.) Translating Wor(l)ds: Christianity Across Cultural Borders. Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, 51. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, pp. 283-304. Full text is available at: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896657954-283 2 This paper analyses how vodou is embedded in the history of Haiti; it is central to the language, literatures, and narratives of the 1791-1802 Saint Domingue revolution. Referring to the writer Edwidge Danticat and scholar of religion, Brent Plate, it engages with the ways in which a new language of religiosity, which prioritises the senses, can be creatively transcribed. This language of religiosity is in contrast to a European and Christian use of the term ‘religion’ which has a tendency to segregate the political and the religious, the spiritual and the material, the body and the mind. The language of religiosity used here is instead guided by a female historiography of Haiti and the goddess Erzulie.","PeriodicalId":103314,"journal":{"name":"Translating Wor(l)ds","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115426230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theological Revisionism and the Recomposition of the Religio-spiritual Field","authors":"R. Roberts","doi":"10.5771/9783896657954-305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896657954-305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103314,"journal":{"name":"Translating Wor(l)ds","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128276915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christological Marathi in Cristanchi Sastrazza Cathexismo (1778)","authors":"P. Eliasson","doi":"10.5771/9783896657954-73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896657954-73","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I analyse the theological language of a bilingual Catholic catechism from 1778, written in Portuguese and a Marathi dialect from northern Konkan, India. The Portuguese title of the ...","PeriodicalId":103314,"journal":{"name":"Translating Wor(l)ds","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131866648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}