1874/78 Vienna FIRST SHAKESPEARE TO APPEAR IN HEBREW Othello / Romeo and Juliet

Description: Vienna, Spitzer & Holzwarth Jun.: 1874. bound with בדפוס געאָרג בראֶג, Ṿinn : Bi-defus Georg Breg, 638 [1878] LANGUAGE: HEBREW VG CONDITION, CLOTH COVERS, EX-LIBRIS COPY THE FIRST 2 HEBREW EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE BOUND HERE IN 1 VOLUME THE FIRST VOLUME ALONE HAS SOLD AT AUCTION SEVERAL TIMES, INCLUDING 3 TIMES AT KESTENBAUM, SELLING AT TIMES FOR OVER $1000 + COMMISSION 1. Ithiel HaKushi MeVenezia / Othello the Moor of Venice by Shakspeare [sic!]. Translated into Hebrew by J. E. Salkinson. Edited by Peretz Smolenskin. FIRST HEBREW EDITION. Titles in Hebrew and English. pp. 35, (1), 298 (i. e. 198), (2) THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF ANY OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS INTO THE HEBREW LANGUAGE Smolenskin writes in the the introduction: “Shakespeare's plays in the Holy Tongue! …what a great prize the translator of these plays has brought into the treasure-house of our [Hebrew] language.” See EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 1262-3. 2. Bound with רם ויעל Shakspeare's Romeo and Juliet. Translated into Hebrew by I[saac] E[liezer] S[alkinson], printed in Vienna in 1878, the first Hebrew edition of Rome and Juliet, and the second work of Shakespeare to ever appear in the Hebrew Language The translator was Isaaac Salkinson, a Lithuanian Jew living in Vienna, a colorful figure with a checkered past. Salkinson was born in 1820 in Shkloŭ, Lithuania (present day Belarus), received a thorough Yeshiva education. eventually made his way to Vilna where he was exposed to and attracted to the Haskalah and by 1849 we find him in London. In London, he met Christian missionaries, who converted him to Christianity, and by 1856 he was appointed a Presbyterian Pastor, working as a missionary in 1864. He was sent to missionize in Vienna, where he met Peretz Smolentskin, editor of the Hebrew periodical Hashachar. Smolenskin, learning of his knowledge of English and talents as a translator, convinced Salkinson to translate English Classics to Hebrew. He translated John Milton's Paradise Lost in 1871, but he is most remembered for his translations of Shakespeare to Hebrew, Othello as Ithi'el ha-Kushi, and in 1878 - Romeo and Juliet as Ram ve-Ya'el. Despite his conversion to Christianity, he identified as a Jew and his translations of Shakespeare to Hebrew were Judaized and Christian elements were removed. Some of the Judaizing features in the Romeo and Juliet, is firstly the names in Hebrew, Ram, the namesake of the ancestor of Kind David mentioned in the book of Ruth and Yael, the protagonist of the story told in Judges where Yael saved the Israelites by killing Sisera, the enemy general. Pentecost was translated as שבועות , the Christian holiday Lammastide was translated as חג פלני אלמני, baptized was substituted by כרתי בריתך, evening mass as בין הערבים, churchyard was replaced with על פני הקברים and Holy Franciscan Friar was translated as כהן צדק. 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