https://hcommons.org/members/irisandraya/activity/ Activity feed for Iris Idelson-Shein. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:54:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8563ed5c8e81af2095158f83f97c01b7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880338/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:48:18 -0400 Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times. Offering a comprehensive view of early modern Jewish translation, Iris Idelson-Shein charts major paths of textual migration from non-Jewish to…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6029a4ff1c85a00d623357571f9fd58 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879446/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:48:13 -0400 This essay discusses the corpus of translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages, which emerged during the early modern period. Particular attention is given to Hebrew translations produced by members of the Jewish religious elite during the long eighteenth century, which have hitherto been viewed as original Jewish works. The article…[Read more]

]]> 0 da5e8b738b3e4c27528358d99b81589b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879445/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:42:46 -0400 In the decades surrounding the end of the seventeenth century, new ideas about women’s bodies migrated from Latin medical texts to Hebrew ones. This article follows the journey of one particular idea, that there exists a unique kind of feminine madness, termed furor uterinus in Latin, which originates in the womb, and expresses itself in e…[Read more]

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