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

[cogitationitis.livejournal.com]

Hebrew translation is fascinating. For example, in an early translation of Tolkein, elves were called "the sons of Lillith" (B'nai Lillit). Later translators were a bit less polarized.