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

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I think part of the issue is that the kid wants to identify with Harry Potter, so when Harry eats bacon, it disrupts him from that level of reader identification. But the translator is correct; Harry is not Jewish, let alone observant of the laws of kashruth, and it would be wrong to deny Harry of his breakfast for the sake of the Jewish readers.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Ah, but think of the advantages.... Erev Pesach, accio chametz!