{"id":1689,"date":"2013-11-26T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/26\/translating-charles-darwin-by-melanie-j-meyers\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:39:27","slug":"translating-charles-darwin-by-melanie-j-meyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/26\/translating-charles-darwin-by-melanie-j-meyers\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1689 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/26\/translating-charles-darwin-by-melanie-j-meyers\/attachment\/1690\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mwvnhasXPY1r3qmd1o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/26\/translating-charles-darwin-by-melanie-j-meyers\/attachment\/1691\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mwvnhasXPY1r3qmd1o2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><strong>Translating Charles Darwin<\/strong><br \/><\/span><span>by Melanie J. Meyers, M.S.,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><em><span>Senior Reference Services Librarian, Special Collections,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Center for Jewish History<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><span>November 24 was the 154th\u00a0anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin\u2019s most famous work,\u00a0<em>The Origin of the Species<\/em>. The full title of the work was\u00a0<em>On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life<\/em>, but this title was shortened for the sixth and subsequent editions. Charles Darwin\u2014or <\/span><span>\u1e6c<\/span><span>sharlz Dar<\/span><span>\u1e7f<\/span><span>in in Yiddish\u2014wrote many other scientific books based on his extensive travels and observations, but\u00a0<em>Origin<\/em>\u00a0remains his most well-known work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><span>Here at the Center for Jewish History, we have a wealth of material by and about Darwin and his theories. We have copies of works such as <em>The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Expressions of Emotions in Man and Animals<\/em>, and dozens of others including critical essays, biographies and collected letters. We also have copies of another famous Darwin work,\u00a0<em>The Descent of Man<\/em>, in many different editions. The YIVO Library holds copies of\u00a0<em>Descent<\/em>\u00a0in both Yiddish and Russian, in addition to works discussing Darwin\u2019s theories, written by Frederick Engels and translated into Russian. Both Leo Baeck Institute and The American Jewish Historical also hold works by and about Darwin, in both German and Yiddish. YIVO Library also holds what appears to be a complete set of Darwin\u2019s works in English, published in New York by D. Appleton and Co. publishers. Appleton, founded in 1831, specialized in science books at moderate prices that were affordable for the layperson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><span>See above for pictures of\u00a0<\/span><em>The Descent of Man\u00a0<\/em><span>in Russian (courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research) and Yiddish (courtesy of the American Jewish Historical Society).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translating Charles Darwinby Melanie J. Meyers, M.S.,\u00a0Senior Reference Services Librarian, Special Collections,\u00a0Center for Jewish History November 24 was the 154th\u00a0anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin\u2019s most famous work,\u00a0The Origin of the Species. The full title of the work was\u00a0On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, but this title was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,667,671,674,8,673,305,292,398,670,669,668,672,31],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-american-jewish-historical-society-collections","tag-charles-darwin","tag-d-appleton-and-co","tag-frederick-engels","tag-history","tag-it-came-from-the-stacks","tag-lillian-goldman-reading-room","tag-melanie-j-meyers","tag-research-and-reference-services","tag-science","tag-the-descent-of-man","tag-the-origin-of-the-species","tag-works-in-translation","tag-yivo-institute-for-jewish-research-collections","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}