Dear safranim and safraniot, Sorry for the late response, but I knew that if I only looked up Harriet Beecher Stowe's work in the wonderful Jewish Translation History Bibliography of Bibliographies and Studies, complied by our colleague Bob Singerman (see my review in Target, Volume 17, Number 1, 2005, pp. 171-178), I would find some citations.
Here there are: 1. Hildreth, Margaret Holbrook. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Bibliography. Hamden, Conn., 1976. (A bibliography of Hebrew translations of Uncle Tom's Cabin on p.49). 2. Toren, S. Ilan. "The Discovery of America in the Israeli University: Historical, Cultural, and Methodological Perpectives." Journal of American History 81 (1994/1995): 164-82. (see pp. 169-70 for Hebrew translations of American literature). And for a Yiddish translation of the work, see: 1. Niger, Sh. "America in the Works of I.M. Dick (1814-1839)." YIVO Annual of Jewish social Science 9 (1954): 63-71 (signed S. Niger Charney). As for the book's popularity in Hebrew translation: in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of books translated into Hebrew came from the German or Russian cultures, and those few translated from English - and even fewer from American English - were mostly translated from German or Russian translated versions. An American book would have been translated at that time only if it had a great prestige in the German or Russian cultures, as Hebrew translators knew hardly any English. (Even Shakespeare was translated from Russian!) I hope that answers the question. Kol tuv, Rachel Rachel Leket-Mor Bibliographer Religion, Philosophy, Jewish Studies Arizona State University Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
