La Bona Libro... Kaj Plu
Today I went to Downtown Yerushalayim (near the Kosher Ethiopian restaurant me and a friend saw the finals of the World Cup at) to pick up a book for Mar Gavriel. And then I decided to see what else they might have in the store to interest me.
Among other finds, I got an Aram Soba siddur, Shadal's commentary (with Italian translation!) on Yesha‘yahu/Isaiah, and...
For the non-linguists among us, this means:
THE
HOLY BIBLE
OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
LONDON
BRITISH AND SCOTTISH BIBLE SOCIETY
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW
NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND
1947
The next page, though, is even cooler:
(ignore the Christian Supersessionism)
THE OLD TESTAMENT
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL HEBREW
LAZAR LUDOVIC ZAMENHOF
In other words, the "Old Testament" (a.k.a. our Tanakh, with the books misarranged) portion of this Bible uses a translation of the Tanakh written by Dr. Eli‘ezer (Leyzer) Zamenhof, "Doktoro Esperanto" himself!
And here we have the beginning of Bereishit/Genesis:
And this is the beginning of this week's parsha:
(and it only cost 50₪... marked down from 400!)
Among other finds, I got an Aram Soba siddur, Shadal's commentary (with Italian translation!) on Yesha‘yahu/Isaiah, and...
For the non-linguists among us, this means:
HOLY BIBLE
OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
LONDON
BRITISH AND SCOTTISH BIBLE SOCIETY
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW
NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND
1947
The next page, though, is even cooler:
(ignore the Christian Supersessionism)
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL HEBREW
LAZAR LUDOVIC ZAMENHOF
In other words, the "Old Testament" (a.k.a. our Tanakh, with the books misarranged) portion of this Bible uses a translation of the Tanakh written by Dr. Eli‘ezer (Leyzer) Zamenhof, "Doktoro Esperanto" himself!
And here we have the beginning of Bereishit/Genesis:
And this is the beginning of this week's parsha:
(and it only cost 50₪... marked down from 400!)
carved on the walls of the caverns by Steg (dos iz nit der šteg) at 7/11/2006 03:57:00 PM
11 Comments:
That's pretty wild.
Please tell me you don't know Esperanto though!
Nope, don't speak Esperanto.
I just know a little bit about how it works.
Like all nouns ending with -o (in the singular nominative form), and mal- being a general-purpose prefix for making pairs of opposites.
Malnovo = old. Now that's cool. Old is a deficiency of new.
Supposedly mal- implies no value judgement; it just means "opposite". I don't know how it was decided which would get the basic word and which would get the derived opposite, though.
I lived on Rechov ShaDaL in Jerusalem for 2 years, and my husband is half Italian, and I actually own that same translation - very funny! We particularly like ShaDaL for so many reasons :-) I miss that neighborhood. We moved from there to NYC and then to Monsey, which is SO not the same. We now live very far elsewhere, but your post brought me back to a great time in our lives!
Still supposed to dispose of it, aren't you…
Ezer:
I didn't even know there was a Shadal street here :-) ... looks like it's right near the Shuq, good location!
Lipman:
For sure?
FABULOUS neighborhood. I loved it. I would get fresh, hot bourekas every morning for breakfast while waiting for my bus. Very few English speakers, VERY few Ashkenazim. I was looking for this type of experience and it was wonderful. Never a dull moment. I wrote about some of it here: http://ezerknegdo.blogspot.com/2006/05/israel.html
MUCH better than Monsey :-)
Did you notice Zamenhoff lane, right near the US consulate?
Manuscriptboy:
I have a picture of rehhov Zamenhof in Tel-Aviv, but that's it. I think i've seen the one in J'lem on a map.
We stayed in the Center Hotel, on Rechov Zamenhof in T-A, right off the singing fountain.
Didn't know who he was at the time, though (1998).
Not a bad hotel, and they had rooms when my initial plan (the Gordon Hotel, which turned out to be youth hostel rooms) failed.
P.S. I posted the story on my blog.
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