Prof. Rachel Weissbrod

Rachel Weissbrod is full professor and former chair of the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Her areas of research include theory of translation, literary translation into Hebrew, translation for the media and the interrelation between translation and other forms of transfer. She has published in Target, The Translator, Meta, Babel, Linguistica Antverpiensia, Jostrans, Translation Studies and more. Her book Not by Word Alone, Fundamental Issues in Translation (in Hebrew) was published by The Open University of Israel in 2007. She coauthored with Ayelet Kohn Translating the Visual - A Multimodal Perspective (Routledge 2019).
Publications
Courses
Translation Studies - Where From? Where To?
Translation as Problem Solving
Translation and Meaning
Shakespeare's Translations and Adaptations
Translation and Metaphor
Translation for the Electronic Media
Translation of Multimodal Texts
Research
Theory of translation
Literary translation into Hebrew
Translation for the electronic media (subtitles, dubbing)
Inter-semiotic translation (transfer)
Translation and anti-Semitism
- Last modified: 31/01/2021