Yiddish translation of Gita (?)

[Amos Nevo]

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>Subject:      Re: Yiddish translation of Gita (?)
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>>Besides Yiddish, that mere "German patois" by some pompous
ignoramuses,
>>is also a language that has been the medium of several great writers
>>(one of them a Nobel Prize winner) and of an important culture.
>
>
>How much affected and violent in language certain people get when not
>everyone accept fully what they believe to be truth. For me a
translation in
>Hebrew would have quite sense, but  not  much in Yidish, a disapearing,
>second language , no doubt a patois and a german dialect, an exclusive
>vehicle for communication only between members of a certain community
>without any universal aim. That's why it sounds strange to me and don't
come
>with that old paranoid talk of anti-semitism.
>
>I am not to judge who is paranoidic or an antisemite, but I hold great
appreciation to Yiddish, the language my ancestors spoke and in which
great works were written.
In fact there are several translations of the Gita in Hebrew. Three that
I koww of are the works of prof. E. Olswanger, S. Kalo, and the
translation of Swami Prabhupada's bhashia of the Gita.


Amos Nevo
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