Translation and History

In recent years, there is a growing interest in the fruitful intersection between translation studies and historical research. In this interdisciplinary junction, the differences between competing theories of translation are discussed in light of their historical (or ahistorical) assumptions. We also explore the diverse ways in which translation participates in shaping the historical memory of societies and nations; how the perceptions of the concept and practice of translation have transformed throughout history; and how translation phenomena inform us about historical moments and events. We explore translation to shed new light on Jewish-Christian relations throughout the ages; national language ideologies; tensions in homeland-diaspora relations; the politics of different historical layers of the same language; Holocaust memory; and migration in its various sociocultural contexts.