| Creator: | Harshav, Barbara, 1940- |
| Title: | Harshav mss. |
| Collection No.: | LMC 2257 |
| Dates: | 1993-2001 |
| Quantity: |
Quantity: 5 Boxes Quantity: 5 standard |
| Abstract: | The Harshav mss., 1993-2001, consists of correspondence and drafts of volumes translated from Hebrew into English by translator Barbara Harshav, 1940-. |
| Location: | Lilly - Stacks |
| Language: | English , Hebrew , Yiddish . |
| Repository: | Lilly Library 1200 E. Seventh St. Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500 Business Number: 812-855-2452 liblilly@indiana.edu URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library |
Barbara Harshav, 1940-, was born on 17 September 1940. She completed her A.B. at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1962, her M.A. at the University of Wisconsin in 1965, and further graduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley in 1967. Between 1964 and 1975, she taught history at the Tuskegee Institute, San Francisco State University, North Carolina Central University, and Federal City College. In 1978, she started translating German, Yiddish, Hebrew, and French works into English. In the 1980s, she completed work for Yad Vashem and the YIVO Institute. She joined the comparative literature faculty at Yale University in 2000.
The Harshav mss., 1993-2001, consists of correspondence and drafts of volumes translated from Hebrew into English by Barbara Harshav. Present is correspondence with Michal Govrin relating to Harshav's translation of his The Name [ha-Shem] , as well as the final translation manuscript (New York: Riverhead, 1998), and three drafts of her translation of Haim Be'er's The Pure Element of Time [Havalim] published by the University Press of New England in 2003.
This collection has been maintained in its original order, and is organized chiefly by Yiddish and Hebrew works and authors translated by Harshav.
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[Item], Harshav mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Gift: 2003, 2005, 2007
Physical Description: (15 folders)
Scope and Contents: Includes Correspondence, 1993-1998, December 1994, October 1996, July 7, 1997, chiefly between Govrin and Harshav and mostly fax copies; Miscellaneous texts, some Hebrew, some English; Opening chapter of ha-Shem - Hebrew Two drafts of opening chapter, "Week One" (sic) - English, 1993-1998, December 1994, October 1996, July 7, 1997; Two drafts of "One Week," 1993-1998, December 1994, October 1996, July 7, 1997, final Entire text: "final version, 1993-1998, December 1994, October 1996, July 7, 1997," with some pencil and red ink corrections
Physical Description: (8 folders)
Scope and Contents: Includes first draft, October 2001, October-November 2001, November 2001; Second draft, October 2001, October-November 2001, November 2001; Final, October 2001, October-November 2001, November 2001
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Scope and Contents: Includes 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th drafts.
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Physical Description: (34 folders)
Scope and Contents: Contains edited drafts of translations of Yiddish & Hebrew poems in collection, as well as title page and table of contents.
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