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* Bedřich Fried, “Na rozcestí tří světů.” The publication lists his name alternately as Bedřich and Frederick.
The Czech word for “Jew” is Žid. Its first letter is pronounced like the second “g” in “garage.” Unlike in some Slavic languages at the time, the word did not necessarily have a negative connotation. When Žid is capitalized, it normally identifies a person as nationally Jewish. When it is written in lowercase, it tends to refer to a member of the Jewish religion. Fried consistently capitalized the word Žid throughout this essay.
I have translated the word Židovstvo, which Fried also capitalized, as “Jewry.” It should be understood, in this case, as a national collectivity with a religious tradition. Fried also wrote of židovstvi, which I have rendered “Jewishness,” as it connotes an ethnic culture, heritage, and identity that includes but also exceeds a religious tradition. The Czech word for “Judaism,” Judaismus (wherein the “j” is pronounced like an English “y”), does not appear in this text.
Fried used a handful of English-language idioms, presumably to signal his adjustment to life in America, which is a partial focus of his piece. I have preserved his quotation marks from the original to indicate which words appeared there in English.
All emphasis, including capitalization and italicization, have been preserved from the original. All translations are my own.
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