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Translator Interview Series: Michael Kramer
Translator Interview Series: Michael Kramer
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Nov 1, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In April, we kicked off a series of conversations with translators of texts featured on this podcast. Today, host Marcella Sulak interviews Michael Kramer for the second installment. He teaches in the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University. He has authored and edited numerous books and essays on Jewish and American literature and has also translated S. Y. Agnon’s “And The Crooked Shall Be Made Straight.” Previous episodes: Sitting with Strangeness: A Conversation with Adriana X. Jacobs on Translating theIsraeli-Vietnamese Poet Van Nguyen And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight
Released:
Nov 1, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Yocheved Bat Miriam, a poet on the threshold: Yocheved Bat Miriam is unique among Hebrew language poets for holding the land of her birth and the land of her life in equal esteem. Born in Russia in 1901, she published her first book of poetry, Merahok ("From a distance"), in Palestine in 1929. A... by Israel in Translation