Articles by Yardenne Greenspan

The Song and the Singer: On Translating Gon Ben Ari’s “The Sequoia Children”

October 17, 2012

I grew up in Israel to bilingual parents. My father was born and raised in Philadelphia. My mother was born in New York City to Israeli parents. When my father speaks Hebrew he still has an accent. His Rs are soft. My mother is fluent in English and Hebrew, and makes spelling mistakes in both. I grew…...read more »