Mendel Lefin Satanover's Yiddish Translation of Job: Edition of an Important Document of Early 19th-Century East-European Haskalah

撒旦的Menaem Mendel Lefin(1746-1826)是加利西亚和波多利亚哈斯卡拉(犹太启蒙运动)的核心人物，意第绪语圣经译本属于现代东方意第绪语的最早文献，反映了当地语言的真实形式。同时，他们也是已知的将圣经翻译成现代版意第绪语的最早尝试之一。莱芬将Mishle(谚语)、Kohelet(传道书)、Echa(哀歌)、Ijov(约伯)和特赫利姆(诗篇)翻译成他的母语意第绪语波多利亚。在他的有生之年，只有米歇尔被印刷(1814年)；科赫莱特1819年的书法手稿，今天只作为照相技术复制现存，可能是为了作为印刷出版物的替代品。在莱芬的其他翻译，只有一个手稿(MS 8°1053，犹太国家图书馆，耶路撒冷)，其中包含一个版本的哀歌和片段的约伯和诗篇，已下降到我们。莱芬的圣经翻译不仅是意第绪语语言和文学史的重要来源，而且是东欧德系犹太人的历史和文化的重要来源，特别是哈斯卡拉赫时代的历史，以及整个犹太圣经翻译史。尽管有这种多方面的重要性，莱芬的意第绪语圣经译本(或他的任何其他著作)都没有批判性版本。该项目的目标是为耶路撒冷手稿8°1053中包含的意第绪语译本之一--莱芬翻译的约伯--准备一个学术版，这将是实现更广泛愿望的关键一步。带注释的批判版将为在意第绪语史或意第绪语文献学研究以及对与文本内容具体相关的主题的调查提供可靠的文本基础，如在哈斯卡拉史或犹太注释领域。该版本主要面向意第绪语语言和文学的学者，以及将专门从事这些领域的研究生和博士生。此外，它也将是有价值的相邻学科的学者(如在犹太，德语，斯拉夫和闪族研究；语言学，圣经和宗教研究；以及犹太和基督教神学)谁已经获得了大量的现代标准意第绪语阅读知识。

The Yiddish Bible translations of Menahem Mendel Lefin of Satanów (1746-1826), a central figure of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) in Galicia and Podolia, belong to the earliest documents of Modern Eastern Yiddish that reflect an authentic form of the vernacular. At the same time, they are one of the earliest known attempts of translating the Bible into Yiddish in a modern key. Lefin translated Mishle (Proverbs), Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), Echa (Lamentations), Ijov (Job), and Tehillim (Psalms) into his native Yiddish dialect of Podolia. In his lifetime, only Mishle was printed (1814); a calligraphic manuscript of Kohelet of 1819, which today is extant only as a photomechanical reproduction, was probably meant to serve as a substitute for a printed publication. Of Lefin's other translations, only one manuscript (MS 8° 1053, Jewish National Library, Jerusalem), which contains a version of Lamentations and fragments of Job and Psalms, has come down to us. Lefin's Bible translations are an important source not only for the history of the Yiddish language and literature, but also for the history and culture of Ashkenazic Jewry in Eastern Europe, especially for the epoch of the Haskalah, and for the history of Jewish Bible translation in general. In spite of this multi-faceted importance, there is no critical edition of Lefin's Yiddish Bible translations (or of any other of his writings). The objective of this project is to prepare a scholarly edition of one of the Yiddish translations contained in the Jerusalem manuscript 8° 1053, Lefin's translation of Job, which will be a crucial step in attaining the broader desideratum. The annotated critical edition will provide a reliable textual base for research in the history of the Yiddish language or in Yiddish philology as well as for investigations of topics specifically related to the content of the text, such as in the fields of the history of the Haskalah or of Jewish exegesis. The edition is primarily intended for scholars of Yiddish language and literature and for graduate and PhD students who are going to specialize in these fields. In addition, it will also be of value for scholars of adjacent disciplines (such as those in Jewish, German, Slavic, and Semitic studies; linguistics, Bible and Religious studies; and Jewish and Christian theology) who have acquired a substantial reading knowledge in Modern Standard Yiddish.