Translation

Life and legacy of Jewish-Serbian author David Albahari - opinion

A glimpse into the legacy left behind by David Albahari, the prolific Jewish-Serbian author of the Holocaust novel "Bait."

Jewish Serbian writer David Albahari.
 Gdfin CEO Eyal Regev: "when I came up with a completely crazy idea of entering the world of drone deliveries, they listened."

Head in the clouds: Gadfin is changing the game

 The Revolution Orchestra and ‘The Passion of Monty Python.’

Israel's Monty Python: Adopting British humor to Hebrew

 Jessica Cohen has translated more than 30 books and dozens of shorter works by some of the most renowned Israeli writers.

Jessica Cohen: Go-to English translator of contemporary Israeli literature


New website translates Bible, religious texts into Spanish

Most Spanish-language versions of the Bible are based on Christian translations, and the text is heavily influenced by their theology.

Rabbi Shmuel Kornblit (front row, far left) with Jewish studies teachers from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay at Herzog College.

Israeli novel becomes first to be translated into Arabic in Morocco

"As a Moroccan Jew, I have come to realize a dream: that my works are read in my hometown is a source of great personal pride" • "there is yearning for the old times when Jews and Moslems coexisted"

The novel “A Girl in a Blue Shirt," written by Prof. Gabriel Bensimhon

Send friends 5,000-year-old emojis with new Google AI hieroglyphic app

Users can play with hieroglyphics, practice identifying and drawing them and even send their very own message in ancient Egyptian to friends.

A wall of a chamber of the tomb of Mehu is seen after it was opened for the public at Saqqara area near Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, in Giza, Egypt September 8, 2018

Language services in Israel

The language service industry is one of the world’s fastest growing industries.

The cover of Guy Lenman and Nimrod Frydman’s award-winning comic book, ‘Piece of Mind’

The Ibn Tibbon family: Masters of Hebrew translation

Judah ibn Tibbon and his son, Samuel, made translation a key factor in promoting great philosophical works to readers in Hebrew.

‘IN THE mid-12th century, Judah moved from Granada in Muslim Spain and settled in Lunel in Provence.’

Yiddish translation of 'Harry Potter' sells out in only 48 hours

Such success of a Yiddish publication is unprecedented, as few if any Yiddish books published outside the hassidic sector sell 1,000 in the span of a year.

The books in the 'Harry Potter' series.

'Harry Potter' series receives official Yiddish translation

Translated by an Indian-American Orthodox Jew and published in Sweden, the story behind the translation is fascinating in its own right

The books in the 'Harry Potter' series.

French language learning platform under fire after racist rhetoric creeps into translations

LICRA used their Twitter account to publish some of the examples of racism and antisemitism prevalent within some of the proposed translations offered on the website.

Picture of a translation provided by he website Reverso Context when searching for the translation of the word "nicer."

Bringing new worlds into Hebrew

A look into the world of the people who translate from Finnish, Russian, Norwegian and other languages into Hebrew.

Hebrew books

Syrian fluke in translation on Facebook: 'Our name is s***'

Below the Arabic caption, an additional caption in Hebrew was supposed to mean the same and serve a warning to Israelis, but got lost in translation.

A man is silhouetted against a video screen with a Twitter and a Facebook logo