Ithiel ha-Kushi me-Venezia - Othello the Moor of Venice by Shakspeare [sic!]. Translated into Hebrew by J.E. Salkinson. Edited by Peretz Smolenskin

SHAKESPEARE, WILLLIAM

Spitzer & Holzwarth

Vienna

1874

FIRST HEBREW EDITION

THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF ANY OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS INTO HEBREW. This translation remained unsurpassed for at least two generations. (see EJ, XIV cols.1262-3). In his introduction, Smolenskin writes: “Shakespeare’s plays in the Holy Tongue!...what a great prize the translator of these plays has brought into the treasure-house of [the Hebrew] language.”