The Nuclear Deal Doesn’t Prevent the U.S. from Punishing the Ayatollahs for Mistreating Their People
The U.S. should follow Ronald Reagan’s example.
January 11, 2018
Isaac Babel’s Yiddish-Inflected Russian, and the Challenge of Translating It
Transcendent mistakes.
In his Odessa Tales, the early-20th-century Russian-Jewish writer Isaac Babel captures life in his hometown in stories that include rich portraits of a Jewish gangster named Benya Krik and his underworld associates. Having read Val Vinokur’s recent translation of Babel’s work, Jake Marmer, who first encountered the writer as a teenager in post-Soviet Ukraine, describes the broken, ungrammatical Russian that he puts in the mouths of these characters:
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Hamas and Islamic State: The Honeymoon is Over
A public execution signals rising tensions.
Jewish Voice for Peace and Its Anti-Semitic Obsessions
Blaming American Jewry for police brutality while minimizing neo-Nazis’ anti-Semitism.
Isaac Babel’s Yiddish-Inflected Russian, and the Challenge of Translating It
Transcendent mistakes.
What the Dead Sea Scrolls Mean for the History of Judaism and Christianity
And remarkable improvements in Jewish-Catholic relations.