Rachel Weissbrod
Biographic Data
| ID | 153629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Weissbrod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Weissbrod |
| SIGNATURE | WEISSBROD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0112-4913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cultural translation and the immigrant artist
Grounded in contemporary translation studies, this article offers insights into the way translation links with multimodality and art to display the experience of migration. Its main contribution to the discipline is exploring these issues from the perspective of cultural translation – a concept that applies to the transformation of individuals and entire groups when they encounter otherness. Our case study is a selection of works by the Israeli a…
Travelling in a globalised world as an existential experience
This paper sets to show how a multimodal depiction of a trip to a foreign country is used to spin an existential fable adapted to our times. Our case study is the graphic novel In the Water (Ba-Mayim in Hebrew) by the Israeli poet Tehila Hakimi and the illustrator Liron Cohen, published in 2016. The novel turns upside down our expectations from such a trip by manipulating the verbal, visual and spatial dimensions of the experience. The hotel rath…
‘It’s just a comic’ - Or is it? Addressing the past in Rutu Modan’s The Property
In this paper, we study Rutu Modan’s graphic novel, The Property (Ha-Nekhes in Hebrew), as a work which engages in a double exploration. First, we show how the story of Mica and her grandmother, who travel to Poland to reclaim a property lost in the Holocaust, is used by Modan to reflect on her medium and the artistic means it offers such as colour, speech balloons and onomatopoeic icons. Second, we analyse her self-conscious use of the toolkit o…
What if a girl in the Holocaust had Instagram? Éva’s Story as a case of indirect translation
This article deals with the adaptation of a written text – the diary of 13-year-old Éva Heyman who died in the Holocaust – into a series of Instagram stories, joined to create a 50-minute film. We employ translation studies and the concept of ‘indirect translation’ to investigate this unique case in which a genre characterized by its ephemerality is used to commemorate and perpetuate the past. The project, which caused a furore because Instagram …
‘Farewell Red Balloon’ – visual analysis of illustrations inspired by a children’s book
This paper deals with illustrations created as sequels to a children’s book. The visual analysis is conducted in the framework of translation and adaptation studies and attempts to find a place for sequels in this framework. It has been claimed that sequels cannot be grouped together with translations and adaptations because there is a difference between never wanting a story to end and wanting to retell the same story. However, sequels share wit…
Remediation and hypermediacy
This article deals with Kovner’s graphic narrative Ezekiel’s World (2015) as a case of remediation and hypermediacy. The term ‘remediation’ refers to adaptations which involve the transformation of the original work into another medium. While some adaptations strive to eliminate the marks of the previous medium, others highlight the interplay between different media, resulting in ‘hypermediacy’. The latter approach characterizes Ezekiel’s World d…
Celebrity anti-Semitism - A translation studies perspective
From Translation to Transfer
This article examines transfer as a mechanism which applies to translation and other phenomena. The foundations for a theory of transfer were laid down by Roman Jakobson, whose ideas were further developed by Itamar Even-Zohar. Even-Zohar defined transfer as the re-creation in cultural system A of a text or a model originating in system B, whether in the same macro-system or not. Aside from translation in the narrow sense, transfer includes the r…
Translation Research in the Framework of the Tel Aviv School of Poetics and Semiotics
Israel has made an important contribution to translation studies. Since the late 1960s, its contribution in this field is mainly identified with the Tel Aviv school of poetics and semiotics. This paper sets out to introduce the basic ideas of the Tel Aviv school and show how they developed. It surveys the school's achievements in the various branches of translation studies - theory, descriptive research and the applied branches, and examines its …
Exodus as a Zionist Melodrama
Exodus as a Zionist Melodrama* Rachel Weissbrod (bio) Introduction Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. “Enter Exodus,” 29 May 1960. Courtesy of the New York Times Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. Article on Exodus, New York Times, 11 December 1960. Courtesy of the New York Times Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion with Otto Preminger at the premier of Exodus, Israel, …
‘Curiouser and Curiouser’
In ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, wordplay has a central role in producing an ambivalent text, that is, one which can function at one and the same time in children ’s literature and in adult literature. This paper examines, from a norm-oriented approach, how instances of wordplay were treated in three Hebrew translations. The first translation, published in 1923, was subject to a norm which required acceptability at the socio-cultural level.…
Explicitation in translations of prose-fiction from English to Hebrew as a function of norms
Explicitation in translations of prose-fiction from English to Hebrew as a function of norms
Celebrity anti-Semitism - A translation studies perspective
Translation Research in the Framework of the Tel Aviv School of Poetics and Semiotics
Israel has made an important contribution to translation studies. Since the late 1960s, its contribution in this field is mainly identified with the Tel Aviv school of poetics and semiotics. This paper sets out to introduce the basic ideas of the Tel Aviv school and show how they developed. It surveys the school's achievements in the various branches of translation studies - theory, descriptive research and the applied branches, and examines its …
Exodus as a Zionist Melodrama
Exodus as a Zionist Melodrama* Rachel Weissbrod (bio) Introduction Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. “Enter Exodus,” 29 May 1960. Courtesy of the New York Times Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. Article on Exodus, New York Times, 11 December 1960. Courtesy of the New York Times Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion with Otto Preminger at the premier of Exodus, Israel, …
Explicitation in translations of prose-fiction from English to Hebrew as a function of norms
‘Curiouser and Curiouser’
In ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, wordplay has a central role in producing an ambivalent text, that is, one which can function at one and the same time in children ’s literature and in adult literature. This paper examines, from a norm-oriented approach, how instances of wordplay were treated in three Hebrew translations. The first translation, published in 1923, was subject to a norm which required acceptability at the socio-cultural level.…
Exodus as a Zionist Melodrama
Exodus as a Zionist Melodrama* Rachel Weissbrod (bio) Introduction Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. “Enter Exodus,” 29 May 1960. Courtesy of the New York Times Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. Article on Exodus, New York Times, 11 December 1960. Courtesy of the New York Times Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion with Otto Preminger at the premier of Exodus, Israel, …
Translation Research in the Framework of the Tel Aviv School of Poetics and Semiotics
Israel has made an important contribution to translation studies. Since the late 1960s, its contribution in this field is mainly identified with the Tel Aviv school of poetics and semiotics. This paper sets out to introduce the basic ideas of the Tel Aviv school and show how they developed. It surveys the school's achievements in the various branches of translation studies - theory, descriptive research and the applied branches, and examines its …
From Translation to Transfer
This article examines transfer as a mechanism which applies to translation and other phenomena. The foundations for a theory of transfer were laid down by Roman Jakobson, whose ideas were further developed by Itamar Even-Zohar. Even-Zohar defined transfer as the re-creation in cultural system A of a text or a model originating in system B, whether in the same macro-system or not. Aside from translation in the narrow sense, transfer includes the r…
Celebrity anti-Semitism - A translation studies perspective
‘Farewell Red Balloon’ – visual analysis of illustrations inspired by a children’s book
This paper deals with illustrations created as sequels to a children’s book. The visual analysis is conducted in the framework of translation and adaptation studies and attempts to find a place for sequels in this framework. It has been claimed that sequels cannot be grouped together with translations and adaptations because there is a difference between never wanting a story to end and wanting to retell the same story. However, sequels share wit…
Remediation and hypermediacy
This article deals with Kovner’s graphic narrative Ezekiel’s World (2015) as a case of remediation and hypermediacy. The term ‘remediation’ refers to adaptations which involve the transformation of the original work into another medium. While some adaptations strive to eliminate the marks of the previous medium, others highlight the interplay between different media, resulting in ‘hypermediacy’. The latter approach characterizes Ezekiel’s World d…
What if a girl in the Holocaust had Instagram? Éva’s Story as a case of indirect translation
This article deals with the adaptation of a written text – the diary of 13-year-old Éva Heyman who died in the Holocaust – into a series of Instagram stories, joined to create a 50-minute film. We employ translation studies and the concept of ‘indirect translation’ to investigate this unique case in which a genre characterized by its ephemerality is used to commemorate and perpetuate the past. The project, which caused a furore because Instagram …
Travelling in a globalised world as an existential experience
This paper sets to show how a multimodal depiction of a trip to a foreign country is used to spin an existential fable adapted to our times. Our case study is the graphic novel In the Water (Ba-Mayim in Hebrew) by the Israeli poet Tehila Hakimi and the illustrator Liron Cohen, published in 2016. The novel turns upside down our expectations from such a trip by manipulating the verbal, visual and spatial dimensions of the experience. The hotel rath…
‘It’s just a comic’ - Or is it? Addressing the past in Rutu Modan’s The Property
In this paper, we study Rutu Modan’s graphic novel, The Property (Ha-Nekhes in Hebrew), as a work which engages in a double exploration. First, we show how the story of Mica and her grandmother, who travel to Poland to reclaim a property lost in the Holocaust, is used by Modan to reflect on her medium and the artistic means it offers such as colour, speech balloons and onomatopoeic icons. Second, we analyse her self-conscious use of the toolkit o…
Cultural translation and the immigrant artist
Grounded in contemporary translation studies, this article offers insights into the way translation links with multimodality and art to display the experience of migration. Its main contribution to the discipline is exploring these issues from the perspective of cultural translation – a concept that applies to the transformation of individuals and entire groups when they encounter otherness. Our case study is a selection of works by the Israeli a…
Art (11 works) · Literature (11 works) · History (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works)