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Echoes of Translation : Audibility and Relationality in Indian Jewish Women's Songs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schultz, Anna C.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.
- Summary:
- This book focuses on translation, relationality, and gender in the devotional songs of the Bene Israel, a Marathi-speaking Jewish people from western India. Author Anna C. Schultz explores how Bene Israel people have developed a distinctive identity in relation to other Jewish and non-Jewish communities, translating their sounds, words, and practices to have uniquely Marathi Jewish meaning, and relying primarily on the creativity of women as translators.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- A Brief Relational History of the Bene Israel
- Bene Israel Women's Groups and Gatherings
- Being Jewish, Being Indian, Being in Relation
- Translation and Embodied Meaning
- Performance, Audibility, and Gender in Translation
- Sacred Striving in Translation's Echoes
- Chapter Summaries
- 1 Women's Song Notebooks
- A Relational Archive of Performance
- Song Notebooks in Everyday Life
- Relational Remembrance
- Cultural Expertise: Annie Rohekar's Notebooks
- Notebooks for Recall and Preservation
- Song Notebooks as Social Life
- October 16, 2012, Hannah Pezarkar's Home, Mumbai
- January 19, 2015, Shaar Hashamain Synagogue, Thane
- Home of Diana Pingle, Mumbai
- Notebooks: A Material Repertoire
- Gender, Age, and Performance
- Songs of Joseph: Studying Torah, Living Relationally
- "Eliyahoo Hanabee": Sacred Waiting, Sensory Translation, and Everyday Life
- 2 Domesticating Translation in Davidachi Gite
- Domesticating Translation
- Psalms in Jewish Practice
- The Women of Jacob's Circle/Tipheret Israel
- Print, Performance, and Polyglossia
- Performance in Psalms and Psalms in Performance
- C. P. and Caroline Farrar: Publishing, Preaching, and Teaching for Conversion
- Psalms of David as Biblical Translation and Hymnody
- Genre, Indexicality, and Inter-Religious Translation in Psalms of David
- Domesticating Psalm 1
- Conclusion
- 3 Translation's Promise
- The Promise of Kirtan as Translation
- Ascendant Translation: From Christian Kirtan to Prarthana Samaj Kirtan to Jewish Kirtan
- Christian Kirtan
- Kirtan in the Prarthana Samaj
- The "Psychological Conflicts" of Bene Israel Kirtan
- Biblical Translation in Defense of Sonic Translation
- Text and Translation.
- Sounding Translation, Shaping Tradition
- Setting the Stage: Leader, Dress, and Ensemble
- Ideal and Not-So-Ideal Kirtankars
- Between Naradiya Kirtan and Sangit Natak I: The Invention of Bene Israel Kirtan's Formal Structure
- Between Naradiya Kirtan and Sangit Natak II: Song Genre and Musical Style
- 4 "India Is Our Motherland"
- Revival: Flora Samuel and the Lod Bene Israel Women's Association
- Retranslation
- Regendering
- Relocation
- Joseph
- Moses
- Hannah
- Re-revival
- Afterword
- Prologue
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Glossary of Hebrew Terms
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-062693-3
- 9780190626938
- OCLC:
- 1569727582
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