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Norbert Guterman (1900–1984) was a scholar, and translator of scholarly and literary works from French, German, Polish, Yiddish, and Latin into English. Born in
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,
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, Guterman attended the
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, where he studied psychology. He moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, where he continued his studies in psychology, receiving degrees in 1922 and 1923.Jacobs, Jack. ''The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism''. Cambridge University Press, 2014. p. 95 In the 1930s, Guterman worked closely with French
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theorist
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in popularizing the Marxist notions of alienation and mystification. He published translations of Marx's early works, which were often the first publications of these works in any language. Guterman, who was Jewish, moved to the United States in 1933, where he took on translation work for the ''
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'', eventually becoming an editor. He later became interested in
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, though it is not clear if he became observant or was a hasid of a specific rebbe.Shields 1989, 21. In 1936 he became an associate member of the
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on the recommendation of
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who held a great deal of respect for him. In 1949 he co-published '' Prophets of Deceit'' with Leo Löwenthal.Cary McWilliams, "The Native Fascist". ''The New York Times'', December 4, 1949. His papers are kept in the Butler Library of
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.


Select list of translations

* Max Raphael, ''Prehistoric Cave Paintings'', New York, Pantheon, 1945 * Bella Chagall, ''Burning Lights'', illustrated by
Marc Chagall Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with the School of Paris, École de Paris, as well as several major art movement, artistic styles and created ...
, New York, Schocken Books, 1946. *
Kazimierz Wierzyński Kazimierz Wierzyński ( Drohobycz, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, 27 August 1894 – 13 February 1969, London) was a Polish poet and journalist; an elected member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature in the Second Polish Republ ...
, ''The Life and Death of Chopin'', foreword by
Arthur Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein Order of the British Empire, KBE OMRI (; 28 January 1887 – 20 December 1982) was a Polish Americans, Polish-American pianist.
, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1949. *
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, ''Selected Essays'', translated from the French with
Francis Steegmuller Francis Steegmuller (July 3, 1906 – October 20, 1994) was an American biographer, translator and fiction writer, who was known chiefly as a Flaubert scholar. Life and career Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Steegmuller graduated from Columbia U ...
, Garden City, Doubleday & Co., 1963 *
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, ''Papillot, Clignot et Dodo,
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's
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. The original title was "Dutch Lullaby". The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishi ...
'' freely translated into French with
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, illustrated by
Barbara Cooney Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 – March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published for over sixty years. She received two Caldecott Medals for her work on ''Chanticleer and the Fox'' (1958) and ''Ox-Cart ...
, New York, Ariel Books, 1964 *Norbert Guterman, ''A Book of French Quotations with English Translations'', New York, Doubleday, 1965. * F.W.J. Schelling, ''On University Studies'', Ohio University Press, 1966. *
Kazimierz Michałowski Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski (14 December 1901, in Tarnopol – 1 January 1981, in Warsaw) was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, Art history, art historian, member of the Polska Akademia Nauk, Polish Academy of Sciences, profe ...
, ''Art of Ancient Egypt'', translated and adapted from the Polish and the French, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1968. *
Henri Lefebvre Henri Lefebvre ( ; ; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for furthering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social ...
, ''The Sociology of Marx'', New York, Pantheon Books, 1968. *
Leszek Kołakowski Leszek Kołakowski (; ; 23 October 1927 – 17 July 2009) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analysis of Marxism, Marxist thought, as in his three-volume history of Marxist philosophy ''Main Current ...
, ''The Alienation of Reason: A History of Positivist Thought'', Anchor, 1969. Subsequently reissued as ''Positivist Philosophy from Hume to the Vienna Circle''. *
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, ''Selected Writings'', edited by Jolande Jacobi, 2nd, rev. ed., Princeton University Press, 1973. *''
Russian Fairy Tales ''Russian Fairy Tales'' (, variously translated; English titles include also ''Russian Folk Tales'') is a collection of nearly 600 fairy and folktales, collected and published by Alexander Afanasyev between 1855 and 1863. The collection cont ...
'', collected by
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, Pantheon, 1976. *Norbert Guterman, compiler, ''The Anchor Book of Latin Quotations'', Anchor, reprint ed., 1990. *
Marek Hłasko Marek Hłasko (14 January 1934 – 14 June 1969) was a Polish author and screenwriter. Life Hłasko's biography is highly mythologized, and many of the legends about his life he spread himself. Marek was born in Warsaw, as the only son of M ...
, ''The Eighth Day of the Week'', reprint ed.,
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, 1994.


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