Translation and Westernization: Gulliver's Travels in Ladino
2001; Indiana University Press; Volume: 7; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2979/jss.2001.7.2.149
ISSN1527-2028
Autores Tópico(s)Lexicography and Language Studies
ResumoAleksander Ben Ghiat's translation of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is an important literary document as well as a valuable resource for the student of Sephardic social and intellectual history, and my goal in this article is to provide a philological analysis of it. 1 Ben Ghiat was a prolific writer. He was born in Izmir, Turkey, and received his education there, first in a meldar (a Jewish religious primary school), then in one of the schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU). These schools were opened in the Ottoman Empire after 1860 by French Jews, whose goal was to bring Western cultural values, progress, and moral education to their Oriental co-religionists. The AIU saw its work as a civilizing mission. The general system of teaching imitated those principles dominant in nineteenth-century Republican France. At first the teachers came from Paris, but later they were recruited in the Middle East and instructed in France. For the most part, they were themselves graduates of the AIU schools.
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