Ayelet Tsabari
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Non-Identical Twins: Translating Myself into Hebrew
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to signin or get access. Photo by Ayelet Tsabari I exist in an echo chamber of self-translated voices, all of them my own. —Ilan Stavans When my first novel (and third book), Songs for the Brokenhearted, secured a Hebrew translation deal last year, I had a choice to make about the matter of translating. I’d written the book in English, my second language, but Hebrew was—still is—my mother tongue.
On the Yemeni Jewish Tradition of Musical Storytelling
I come from a people who sing. I don’t mean professionally; singing was simply a part of our everyday lives as Yemeni Jews. During kiddush at my grandma’s house, we sang Shabbat songs, my uncles’ voices boomy and loud. My favorite part of the Passover meal was when we harmonized the holiday songs at the end of dinner, while drumming raucously on the table.
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