The seminar “Translation of non-Jewish literature in the early Hebrew children’s periodicals”, by Prof. Agnieszka Jagodzińska (University of Wrocław) took place on April 19, 2023, at the Center for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS), in Madrid.

The lecture addressed the problem of non-Jewish literature translated into Hebrew and published in the early Hebrew periodicals for children. Prof. Jagodzińska discussed the translators’ strategies to deal with the sometimes obviously Christian content of this literature and how they negotiated the extent of “otherness” to which they exposed Jewish children. A close reading of selected texts which serve as illustrations of the discussed problems was offered.

Agnieszka Jagodzińska is an Associate Professor in the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław, Poland. Her academic interests focus on Jewish literature, culture and history in the context of Jewish-Polish contacts in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Agnieszka Jagodzińska has authored, edited or co-edited a number of publications related to acculturation and integration of Polish Jews, Jewish periodicals and literature, Jewish universalism, conversion and Christian missions to the Jews, and translations. She is a member of the Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Wrocław. Prof. Jagodzińska is currently researching advertisements in the Jewish periodicals of the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She also coordinates the work of the Hebrew translators involved in the project “The Literary Canon of Memoirs by Polish Jews” funded by NPRH (2017-2022).