Macbeth. Translated into Hebrew by Isaac Barb from the German version of Friedrich von Schiller

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

Zupnik & Knoller

Drohobycz [Galicia]

1883

FIRST HEBREW EDITION of Macbeth. Square Hebrew characters vocalized

See EJ, Vol. XIV, col. 1263

FIRST HEBREW EDITION OF MACBETH In his learned Word to the Reader, Alexander Halevi Langbank of Jaroslav, Galicia, provides interesting historical backdrop to this enterprise, explaining that as there did not exist in Hebrew a dramatic tradition as in other languages, understandably, the first Hebrew plays were perforce translations from other literatures