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דוד ויסקוט Dawid Wiskott
Translator into Hebrew and German מתרגם לגרמנית ולעברית
גם מאנגלית ומיידיש also from English and Yiddish
ruthwi@macam.ac.il http://mywebpage.netscape.com/abujaftiel/instant/index.html
tel. +972-2-9961532 fax +972-1532-9961532
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כדי לראות את התמונה בגודל קריא, תקתק עליה
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כדי לראות את התמונה בגודל קריא, תקתק עליה
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כתב היד ברור למדי, אלא שבגלל אי-הרגילות לצורת האותיות הזאת אני צריך לפענח אותו שורה מול שורה, לפני שאוכל לנסות לתרגם אותו.
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One day, someone posted on one of the mailing lists:
"Is there anyone on the list who can translate Aramaic. I have a small project (seems like a contract in two pages) that needs quick attention."
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So I wrote to the poster:
written in hebrew letters, i suppose? into what?
i am dawid wiskott
translator into hebrew and german,
also from english and yiddish, sometimes danish
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The answer came at once:
"It is written in Hebrew characters and I need it translated into English. May I fax it to you?"
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And I replied:
"You may. I am quite familiar with Jewish Aramaic. As you see in my signature, I don't advertise myself for translation into English. You will have to polish what I send you."
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In came the source, as pdf -- the two handwritten pages displayed above, the left-hand one first, but when I deciphered them it turned out to be the second of the two pages. You can see them in readable size if you click on them.
The customer asked how long it would take me. I looked at the document and wrote back:
"The handwriting is clear enough, but I have to decipher and copy it before I can start to write a translation. This is not going to be a two-hour night quickie as I first thought. Don't commit yourself to a deadline closer than 24 hours; I will do what I can to deliver earlier."
Then I was advised to wait for an approval, which never came.
But some hours later a fellow translator established contact between me and a client of his who had a job that my acquaintance could not handle.
So I got the same pdf file twice more -- once from my acquaintance, to make sure I could read it, and once from the client, with his purchase order.
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חצות לילה תקרא השם הזה החקוק בטבעת ותשביע אותו ג"פ שיבא ויעמוד ויבאר
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: לך בשלימות את אשר תחפוץ ואשר תרצה יודיעך בלי שום הטעה כלל
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Hebrew pure and simple, no clumsy Aramaic. But what subject-matter! A Hogwarts textbook, perhaps?
אכן שפה דומה לארמית, לפחות יותר משהיא דומה לאנגלית. הכתב נראה בעיני ההדיוטיות כמו ספרדי-מאוחר. והתוכן -- מוזר ומשונה מאין כמוהו.
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Well, here it is together with my translation, line by line. As I told the customer, my English aims not at elegance but at faithful proximity to the Hebrew, even down to word-order as far as possible (no further than that, I hope), for the benefit of the antiquarian and the student of wizardry.
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Midnight call this name engraved on the ring and conjure it up 3 times that it come and stand and explain
to you completely what you desire and what you want it will tell you without any misleading at all:
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חצות לילה תקרא השם הזה החקוק בטבעת ותשביע אותו ג"פ שיבא ויעמוד ויבאר
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לך בשלימות את אשר תחפוץ ואשר תרצה יודיעך בלי שום הטעה כלל :
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Another ____ to see the spirits and talk with them, and it is a wondrous : secret: take a hoopoe and kill it in the hour of Mercury and its day1 and gather all the blood in a new bowl of boxwood but be careful
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**** אחר לראות הרוחות ולדבר איתם והוא סוד נפלא קח הוד~הוד והמיתיהו
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בשעת כוכ"ב ויומו וקבץ הדם כולו בקערה חדשה מעץ בוק'שי אבל הזהר
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1 Wednesday.
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שלא יטיף מן הדם לארץ דבר והקערה הזאת תכסה ג"כ במכסה מהעץ הנז'
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lest any of the blood drip to the ground. And this bowl also cover with a lid of the said wood that it cover the hole and put it away in a hidden place with the blood, so that it be not seen even unto you, for 9 days. And after these 9 days are over, untie the lid, and you will find the blood has been turned to worms. And cover it once [again] and close it like the first time so that it be not seen for another 9 days.
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שיכסה הנקב ותשמרהו במקום נסתר עם הדם באופן שלא תראה אפילו לך
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ט' ימים ואחר עבור אלו הט' ימים תתיר המכסה ותמצא הושב הדם לתולעים
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ותכסהו פעם אחת ותסגרהו כבראשונה בבל יראה עוד ט' ימים אחרים
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