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Barbara Harshav
New Haven, CT

TRANSLATES: French, German, Hebrew, Yiddish

Barbara Harshav began her professional career as an historian and became a published translator more than twenty years ago. Her Hebrew translations include works of fiction, history, poetry, and drama by such prominent authors as S.Y. Agnon, Yehudah Amichai, Hanoch Levin, Meir Shalev, Michal Govrin, and Yitzhak Zuckerman. She also translates widely from German, French, and Yiddish. In the last four years, she has taught a course on translation in the Comparative Literature department of Yale University.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Translations

Only Yesterday, S.Y. Agnon. Princeton, 2000.

The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State, Pierre Rosanvallon. Princeton, 2000.

After the Holocaust, Michael Brenner. Princeton, 1997.  

 










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