%0 Book
%A Dror Abend-David
%D 2021
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T «Scorned My Nation»
%B A Comparison of Translations of "The Merchant of Venice</I> into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1096545
%X In this book, the German history of The Merchant of Venice highlights the Central European detour that Shakespearean reception underwent in Hebrew and Yiddish. Such a detour, with its various discomforts, is used to penetrate a current historical and political historiography, rendering Shylock a character that remembers various languages and locations, as well as multiple alternatives for political self-definition. This complex Shakespearean character speaks in many voices and for various purposes and is the only character that can provide the missing link between two contradictory Jewish stereotypes – a persecuted and victimized underling and a merciless and violent plaintive, holding out his knife to draw blood.
%K self-definition, voices, stereotypes
%G English