Thursday, October 7, 2021

SHACKLETON: AN UNUSUAL YIDDISH BIOGRAPHY

 I have long been fascinated with the accounts of Sir Robert Falcon Scott's polar expeditions, especially his last, 1910-1913, during which he died leaving only his diaries (available in many formats at Amazon and elsewhere).

Another account was written by a survivor of this final expedition -- Ernest Henry Shackleton, 1874-1922.  Read more about Shackleton at:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton

I was astonished to discover that there was a English-Yiddish bilingual edition of Shacketon's memoirs translated from English into Yiddish by Barry Goldstein with texts on facing pages.  

This is available as a reprint from Amazon for $8.00 

Shackleton's Three Miracles: Bilingual Yiddish-English Translation of the Endurance Expedition (Yiddish Edition)Paperback – December 3, 2018

https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yiddish-books/spb-TsveyShifl-nesiesUnEynBarg-nesieDrayNisim/shackleton-ernest-henry-tsvey-shifl-nesies-un-eyn-barg-nesie-dray-nisim



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