| Description |
1 online resource (64 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Everlasting Eve; You; Yom Kippur; Heritage; In the Beginning; Four Daughters; Sisterhood; Shema; Scent of Love; Going home; Heavy heart; Love; In the heat of nights; Silver anniversary; Class reunion; Not yet; Enough; Philomela; Creating; Your words; Writing poetry; The thread for her life; Some people's thoughts; Disappointment; Sacred thanks; Kaddish; Silent anguish; Violent death; Table Bay Psalm; Seven year itch; Wasted knowledge; Yiches; Naches; Whispering; Thanksgiving; Ten past the wedding; Five past menopause |
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Time of wisdomQuarter to retirement; In Exile; In Between; You who live secure in your mother-tongue; Living in the dictionary; Notes to the poems; About the poet; Back Cover |
| Summary |
Azila Talit Reisenberger is a Bible scholar, a rabbi, a mother, a wife and a poet. In all these selves she grapples with translating her life from Hebrew to English and back again. Life in Translation is full of wry humour, longing, bitterness, sweetness, playfulness and subversions of traditional meanings and texts--a delightful book that charms and surprises anew with each reading |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Poems in English. Some poems are in both English and Hebrew. Some poems in English give the name of the translator |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
South African poetry (English)
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Poetry by individual poets.
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FICTION -- General.
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South African poetry (English)
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Lyrik
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Südafrika <Staat>
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Juden.
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Englisch.
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008430201 |
| ISBN |
9781920397487 |
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1920397485 |
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9781920397005 |
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1920397000 |
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1283063476 |
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9781283063470 |
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9786613063472 |
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6613063479 |
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1920397620 |
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9781920397623 |
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