Yiddish at Winter Translation School

On January 26, a series of video lectures dedicated to Yiddish was held within the framework of the Winter School of Translation at St. Petersburg State University. Three well known Yiddish translators made presentations: Alexandra Glebovskaya, Yoel Matveyev and Lyubov Lavrova.

Glebovskaya’s report was dedicted to the intrinsic peculiarities of literary translation from Yiddish into Russian. Matveyev spoke about the history and methods of developing scientific and technical terminology in Yiddish. Lavrova’s lecture touched upon various aspects of translating Holocaust texts into English.

The other sections of the three-day conference were devoted to a broad range of other languages, including Hebrew. The St. Petersburg State University’s Winter School of Translation was founded in 2020, during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has been now held online for the fourth time.