Abstracts
Abstract
In 1945, with European Jewry in ruins, Polish-born Symcha Petrushka published the first of six volumes of his Yiddish translation and interpretation of the Mishna. Produced in Petrushka’s adopted home in Montreal, the Mishnayes was conceived as a work of popularization to render one of the core texts of the Jewish tradition accessible to the Jewish masses in their common vernacular, and on the eve of World War II Yiddish was the lingua franca of millions of Jews in Europe as well as worldwide. However, in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the destruction of the locus of Yiddish civilization and millions of speakers combined with acculturation away from Yiddish in Jewish population centres in North America, Petrushka’s Mishnayes remains a tribute to the vanished world of Polish Jewry.
Keywords:
- Yiddish,
- translation,
- Jews in Canada,
- Holocaust,
- Mishna
Résumé
En 1945, alors que le monde juif européen était en ruines, le Polonais Symcha Petrushka publia en langue yiddish le premier des six volumes de sa traduction et interprétation de la Mishnah. Écrites à Montréal, ville adoptive de Petrushka, les Mishnayes étaient une oeuvre de vulgarisation, ayant pour objectif de rendre l’un des textes centraux de la tradition juive accessible au peuple juif dans sa langue vernaculaire. À la veille de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, le yiddish était en effet la lingua franca de millions de juifs en Europe et dans le monde. Au lendemain de l’holocauste, de la destruction du coeur de la civilisation yiddish en Europe, ainsi que de l’acculturation linguistique qui a eu lieu dans les grands centres juifs d’Amérique du Nord, les Mishnayes de Petrushka demeurent un hommage au monde juif polonais disparu.
Mots-clés :
- yiddish,
- traduction,
- les juifs au Canada,
- l’Holocauste, la Mishnah
Appendices
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