Daniel Weissbort
Biographic Data
| ID | 546030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Weissbort |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Weissbort |
| SIGNATURE | WEISSBORT D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Translating Poetry
Poetry
Eve, Long Afterwards (from The Imperfect Paradise, Norton 1988) Hannah (According to the Talmudic story of Hannah, Antiochus IV, the King of Syria, killed her seven sons sequentially, the eldest down to the youngest, for refusing to bow down to him as if he were a god. He attempted to trick the youngest by throwing something on the floor and urging the child to kneel to pick it up, but the boy refused and was also put to death.) Crucifixion Nails…
János Pilinszky and Ted Hughes
Daniel Weissbort edited the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, which he co-founded with the late Ted Hughes, from 1965 to 2003. He is Emeritus Professor, University of Iowa, where he directed t
Poetry
Rechitsa (After R. B. Kitaj, Babel Riding with Budyonny) No Great Artist Perpetrators (Adapted from Zbigniew Herbert) Death stills things down Sunday Immigrant Nathan Sees the Whole Synagogue God’s People The Human Genome Rebekah in the Modern World
Ted Hughes and The Translatable
Poetry
The Jews and Germany. From the "Judeo-German Symbiosis" to the Memory of Auschwitz
The Jews and Germany debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time, there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the best in each other. Enzo Traverso argues that to the contrary, the attainments of Jews in the German-speaking world were due to the Jews aspiring to be German, with little help from and often against the open hostility of Germans. As the Holocaust proved in murder and theft, German Jews could never b…
Who Would Be a Translator
Russian Poetry
Verses for Parents
A History of the People's Democracies
Guerrillas in Latin America. The Technique of the Counter-State
Poem
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Poem
Guerrillas in Latin America. The Technique of the Counter-State
Verses for Parents
A History of the People's Democracies
Russian Poetry
Who Would Be a Translator
The Jews and Germany. From the "Judeo-German Symbiosis" to the Memory of Auschwitz
The Jews and Germany debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time, there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the best in each other. Enzo Traverso argues that to the contrary, the attainments of Jews in the German-speaking world were due to the Jews aspiring to be German, with little help from and often against the open hostility of Germans. As the Holocaust proved in murder and theft, German Jews could never b…
Poetry
Poetry
Rechitsa (After R. B. Kitaj, Babel Riding with Budyonny) No Great Artist Perpetrators (Adapted from Zbigniew Herbert) Death stills things down Sunday Immigrant Nathan Sees the Whole Synagogue God’s People The Human Genome Rebekah in the Modern World
Ted Hughes and The Translatable
János Pilinszky and Ted Hughes
Daniel Weissbort edited the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, which he co-founded with the late Ted Hughes, from 1965 to 2003. He is Emeritus Professor, University of Iowa, where he directed t
Poetry
Eve, Long Afterwards (from The Imperfect Paradise, Norton 1988) Hannah (According to the Talmudic story of Hannah, Antiochus IV, the King of Syria, killed her seven sons sequentially, the eldest down to the youngest, for refusing to bow down to him as if he were a god. He attempted to trick the youngest by throwing something on the floor and urging the child to kneel to pick it up, but the boy refused and was also put to death.) Crucifixion Nails…
Translating Poetry
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