Translation

The Race to Preserve and Document the Sacred Traditions of Ethiopian Jewry

The Orit Guardians.

Amanda Borschel-Dan
Oct. 27 2020 12:01AM

The Sage Who Brought the Talmud to the Masses

Adin Steinsaltz, in memoriam.

Edward Alexander
Aug. 10 2020 12:01AM

Was Og, King of Bashan, a Giant or a Ghost?

The rabbinic tradition got it right.

Laura Quick
July 24 2020 12:01AM

Saving Israel’s Ancient Vultures

Experts think they are the real biblical eagles.

Reuters
June 12 2020 12:01AM

A Murder Mystery about . . . Bible Translation?

Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees!

John Wilson
May 21 2020 12:01AM

How Two Turn-of-the Century Yiddish Classics Shed Light on the Age of Disconnection

Hersh Nomberg, Zalman Shneur, and the plight of the “plucked” hero.

Ri J. Turner
May 4 2020 12:01AM

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Translation of Jonah

And one verse of Isaiah.

Philip Kosloski
March 13 2020 12:01AM

America Seems to Embrace Arab Literary Figures in Inverse Proportion to Their Openness toward Israel

A Columbia professor condemns an Arab author for accepting the Israel Prize.

Peter Theroux
Feb. 5 2020 12:01AM

Robinson Crusoe’s Many Jewish Incarnations

Alter Leyb Robinson and his friend, Shabbos.

Chen Malul
Jan. 13 2020 12:01AM

The Biblical “Unicorns” of Israel’s Deserts

Meet the oryx.

Amit Naor
Dec. 11 2019 12:00AM

Why the Book of Job Proves So Difficult to Translate

Pseudo-archaic poetry, foreign vocabulary, and webs of references.

Edward Greenstein
Sept. 6 2019 12:01AM

How a Pulpit Rabbi Became the Translator of One of the 20th Century’s Great Yiddish Writers

Chaim Grade’s Christmas tree.

Barbara Finkelstein
June 27 2019 12:01AM

By Recycling, a Medieval Jew Preserved a Major Work of Christian Bible Scholarship

The Hexapla in the Genizah.

Benjamin Kantor
March 27 2019 12:01AM

A Momentous, but Flawed Attempt to Render the Bible into English

Lost in translation.

Meir Soloveichik
March 26 2019 12:01AM
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