The Gaza Port Plan Is Foolish and Dangerous
And it won’t discourage terrorism.
June 29, 2018
Translation, retranslation, and un-translation.
This summer, a Yiddish-language production of Fiddler on the Roof—itself an adaptation of the Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem’s series of stories about Tevye the Milkman—will debut in New York. Alisa Solomon tells the improbable story of the first time the musical was rendered into Yiddish:
And it won’t discourage terrorism.
Israeli villains and Palestinian victims.
They’re motivated by a desire to win social recognition.
A Jewish physicist’s theological reflections.
Translation, retranslation, and un-translation.
This summer, a Yiddish-language production of Fiddler on the Roof—itself an adaptation of the Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem’s series of stories about Tevye the Milkman—will debut in New York. Alisa Solomon tells the improbable story of the first time the musical was rendered into Yiddish:
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