Life and Work of Dovid Hofshteyn, Soviet Yiddish Poet

Dror Abend-David

Dr. Dror Abend-David teaches Hebrew and Yiddish Language and Culture at the University of Florida. His first book, based on his dissertation, was published in 2003 by Peter Lang under the title «Scorned my Nation»: A Comparison of Translations of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. His new book, Media and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approach, is forthcoming in 2014 with Bloomsbury Publishing. He received his doctorate in Comparative Literature from New York University (2001), and has published extensively on Translation in relation to Media, Drama, Literature, and Jewish Culture.