Chaim Potter?

[mabfan]

I think this might interest some folks:

From the World Jewish Digest, the article "When Harry Meets Hebrew" by Sarah Bronson, all about the issues involved in translating the Harry Potter books into Hebrew. The translator of the books, Gili Bar-Hillel, seems to have found it a challenging but rewarding task. For example, how would you translate the name Remus Lupin? Should a Hebrew-speaking Harry Potter eat bacon? And so on.

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pointer. It's a very interesting article. Many of the issues raised are the classic dilemmas of translation, but because this is a book whose readers tend to be a) children and b) passionate about it, they are stated extra clearly.