Research Catalog

Title

Interpreting in Nazi concentration camps / edited by Michaela Wolf ; with an essay by Primo Levi.

Publication

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2016.

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Additional Authors

Wolf, Michaela

Description

ix, 232 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• "This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities. With German as the only official language in the lager, communication was vital to the prisoners' survival. While in the last few decades there has been extensive research on the language used by the camp inmates, investigation into the mediating role of interpreters between SS guards and prisoners on the one hand, and among inmates on the other, has been almost nonexistent. On the basis of Primo Levi's considerations on communication in the Nazi concentrationary system, this book investigates the ambivalent role of interpreting in the camps. One of the central questions is what the role of interpreting was in the wider context of shaping life in concentration camps. And in what way did the knowledge of languages, and accordingly, certain communication skills, contribute to the survival of concentration camp inmates and of the interpreting person? The main sources under investigation are both archive materials and survivors' memoirs and testimonials in various languages. On a different level, Translation in Nazi Concentration Camps also asks in what way the study of communication in concentration camps enhances our understanding of the ambiguous role of interpreting in more general terms. And in what way does the study of interpreting in concentration camps shape an interpreting concept which can help us to better understand the violent nature of interpreting in contexts other than the Holocaust? "--
• "Innovative anthology that brings together leading figures in both translation studies and Holocaust studies to explore the role of interpreting in shaping life in Nazi concentration camps and the encompassing ethical questions that are raised about interpreting in general"--

Series Statement

Literatures, cultures, translation

Uniform Title

Literatures, cultures, translation.

Subject

• Nazi concentration camps > Language
• Translating and interpreting > Social aspects
• World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons
• Nazi concentration camps > Management
• Intercultural communication
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Call Number

JFD 17-3474

ISBN

• 9781501313264 (hardback)
• 1501313266 (hardback)
• 9781501313257 (paperback)
• 1501313258 (paperback)

LCCN

2015049931

OCLC

915250296

Title

Interpreting in Nazi concentration camps / edited by Michaela Wolf ; with an essay by Primo Levi.

Publisher

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literatures, cultures, translation

Literatures, cultures, translation.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Wolf, Michaela, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-3474